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class="vector-toc-text"> 2 Permanently inhabited territories </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Permanently_inhabited_territories-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Permanently inhabited territories subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Permanently_inhabited_territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-History" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1 History </div> </a> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Statistics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Statistics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.2 Statistics </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Statistics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Governments_and_legislatures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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id="toc-Economies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.6 Economies </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Minor_Outlying_Islands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Minor_Outlying_Islands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Minor Outlying Islands </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Minor_Outlying_Islands-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Minor Outlying Islands subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Minor_Outlying_Islands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Claimed_territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Claimed_territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Claimed territories </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Claimed_territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Incorporated vs. unincorporated territories </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Incorporated vs. unincorporated territories subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Insular_Cases" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Insular_Cases"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Insular Cases </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Insular_Cases-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Supreme_Court_decisions_about_current_territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Supreme_Court_decisions_about_current_territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Supreme Court decisions about current territories </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Supreme_Court_decisions_about_current_territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Supreme_Court_decisions_about_former_territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Supreme_Court_decisions_about_former_territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3 Supreme Court decisions about former territories </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Supreme_Court_decisions_about_former_territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alaska_Territory" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alaska_Territory"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3.1 Alaska Territory </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alaska_Territory-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Florida_Territory" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Florida_Territory"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3.2 Florida Territory </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Florida_Territory-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Southwest_Territory" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Southwest_Territory"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3.3 Southwest Territory </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Southwest_Territory-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Louisiana_Territory" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Louisiana_Territory"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3.4 Louisiana Territory </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Louisiana_Territory-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_Puerto_Rico" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_Puerto_Rico"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4 Modern Puerto Rico </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modern_Puerto_Rico-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Former_unincorporated_territories_and_administered_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Former_unincorporated_territories_and_administered_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Former unincorporated territories and administered areas </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Former_unincorporated_territories_and_administered_areas-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Former unincorporated territories and administered areas subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Former_unincorporated_territories_and_administered_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Former_unincorporated_territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Former_unincorporated_territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Former unincorporated territories </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Former_unincorporated_territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Former_U.S.-administered_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Former_U.S.-administered_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Former U.S.-administered areas </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Former_U.S.-administered_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Former_U.S._military_occupations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Former_U.S._military_occupations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Former U.S. military occupations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Former_U.S._military_occupations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Flora_and_fauna" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Flora_and_fauna"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Flora and fauna </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Flora_and_fauna-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Flora and fauna subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Flora_and_fauna-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Forests" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Forests"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Forests </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Forests-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Birds" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Birds"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Birds </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Birds-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_animals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_animals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Other animals </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_animals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Protected_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Protected_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Protected areas </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Protected_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Public_image" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public_image"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Public image </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public_image-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Galleries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Galleries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Galleries </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Galleries-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Galleries subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Galleries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Members_of_the_House_of_Representatives_(non-voting)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Members_of_the_House_of_Representatives_(non-voting)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1 Members of the House of Representatives (non-voting) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Members_of_the_House_of_Representatives_(non-voting)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Territorial_governors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Territorial_governors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 Territorial governors </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Territorial_governors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Satellite_images" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Satellite_images"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.3 Satellite images </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Satellite_images-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Maps" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Maps"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.4 Maps </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Maps-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 See also </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-See_also-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle See also subsection </button> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-More_detail_on_all_current_territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#More_detail_on_all_current_territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 More detail on all current territories </div> </a> <ul id="toc-More_detail_on_all_current_territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Related_topics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Related_topics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Related topics </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Related_topics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header 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States</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 34 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-34" aria-hidden="true" > 34 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="تبعيات الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="تبعيات الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB%C5%9E-nin_%C9%99razil%C9%99ri" title="ABŞ-nin əraziləri – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="ABŞ-nin əraziləri" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%96_%D0%97%D0%A8%D0%90" title="Тэрыторыі ЗША – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Тэрыторыі ЗША" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoris_dels_Estats_Units" title="Territoris dels Estats Units – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Territoris dels Estats Units" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorier_i_USA" title="Territorier i USA – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Territorier i USA" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorium_(Vereinigte_Staaten)" title="Territorium (Vereinigte Staaten) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Territorium (Vereinigte Staaten)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organiseeritud_ala" title="Organiseeritud ala – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Organiseeritud ala" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorios_de_los_Estados_Unidos" title="Territorios de los Estados Unidos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Territorios de los Estados Unidos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameriketako_Estatu_Batuetako_Lurraldeak" title="Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako Lurraldeak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako Lurraldeak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7" title="قلمروهای ایالات متحده آمریکا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="قلمروهای ایالات متحده آمریکا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoires_des_%C3%89tats-Unis" title="Territoires des États-Unis – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Territoires des États-Unis" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EA%B5%AD%EC%9D%98_%ED%95%B4%EC%99%B8_%EC%98%81%ED%86%A0" title="미국의 해외 영토 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미국의 해외 영토" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prekomorska_pro%C5%A1irenja_SAD-a" title="Prekomorska proširenja SAD-a – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Prekomorska proširenja SAD-a" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teritori_di_Amerika_Serikat" title="Teritori di Amerika Serikat – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Teritori di Amerika Serikat" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territori_degli_Stati_Uniti_d%27America" title="Territori degli Stati Uniti d'America – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Territori degli Stati Uniti d'America" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA" title="הטריטוריות של ארצות הברית – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הטריטוריות של ארצות הברית" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikas_Savienoto_Valstu_teritorijas" title="Amerikas Savienoto Valstu teritorijas – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Amerikas Savienoto Valstu teritorijas" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAV_teritorijos" title="JAV teritorijos – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="JAV teritorijos" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah-wilayah_Amerika_Syarikat" title="Wilayah-wilayah Amerika Syarikat – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Wilayah-wilayah Amerika Syarikat" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_territory" 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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="noresize" style="display:table; width:100%;"> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding: 0px 5px 3px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States_(DoS_ECA_Color_Standard).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Commonwealth Incorporated/Unincorporated territory Insular area"><img alt="Flag of Commonwealth Incorporated/Unincorporated territory Insular area" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_United_States_%28DoS_ECA_Color_Standard%29.svg/250px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%28DoS_ECA_Color_Standard%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="66" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></div> </div> <div><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States" title="Flag of the United States">Flag</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/File:US_insular_areas.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A world map 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margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">United States Virgin Islands</a> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; background:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><div>9 uninhabited</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Baker_Island" title="Baker Island">Baker Island</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Howland_Island" title="Howland Island">Howland Island</a> 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href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Federal district</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Territory</a> (<a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area)" title="Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)">Commonwealth</a>)</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservation</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States" title="List of Indian reservations in the United States">list</a>) / <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_home_land" title="Hawaiian home land">Hawaiian home land</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_Alaska_Native_tribal_entities" title="List of Alaska Native tribal entities">Alaska Native tribal entity</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pueblo" title="Pueblo">Pueblo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Off-reservation_trust_land" title="Off-reservation trust land">Off-reservation trust land</a> / <a href="/wiki/Tribal_Jurisdictional_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal Jurisdictional Area">Tribal Jurisdictional 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<a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">District (AS)</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Municipalities of Puerto Rico">Municipality (PR)</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">Unorganized atoll</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#bf0a30; color:#FFF; border: 1px double #8C959A;"> Third level</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">Township</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_populated_places_in_the_United_States" title="Lists 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district">school district</a>)</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homeowner_association" title="Homeowner association">Homeowner association</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association" title="Compact of Free Association">Associated state</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States military bases">Military base</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_enclave" title="Federal enclave">Federal enclave</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">Unincorporated area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_town" title="Ghost town">Ghost town</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Portal:United_States" title="Portal:United States">United States portal</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output 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The American territories differ from the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. states</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservations</a> in that they are not <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereign entities</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4">[note 2]</a> In contrast, each state has a sovereignty separate from that of the federal government and each federally recognized Native American tribe possesses limited <a href="/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_United_States" title="Tribal sovereignty in the United States">tribal sovereignty</a> as a "dependent sovereign nation".<a href="#cite_note-SupremeCourt1-3">[2]</a> Territories are classified by <a href="#Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories">incorporation</a> and whether they have an "organized" government established by an <a href="/wiki/Organic_act" title="Organic act">organic act</a> passed by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a>.<a href="#cite_note-InsularDOI-5">[3]</a> American territories are under American sovereignty and may be treated as part of the U.S. proper in some ways and not others (i.e., territories belong to, but are not considered part of the U.S.).<a href="#cite_note-Ponsa-6">[4]</a> Unincorporated territories in particular are not considered to be integral parts of the U.S.,<a href="#cite_note-Princeton-7">[5]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Constitution">U.S. Constitution</a> applies only partially in those territories.<a href="#cite_note-worldatlas-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-InsularDOI-5">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Harvard2017-10">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-11">[9]</a> The U.S. administers three<a href="#cite_note-worldatlas-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-DOI_OIA-12">[10]</a> territories in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a> and eleven in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[note 3]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[note 4]</a> Five territories (<a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a>) are permanently inhabited, unincorporated territories; the other nine are small islands, atolls, and reefs with no native (or permanent) population. Of the nine, only one is classified as an incorporated territory (<a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a>). Two additional territories (<a href="/wiki/Bajo_Nuevo_Bank" title="Bajo Nuevo Bank">Bajo Nuevo Bank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Serranilla_Bank" title="Serranilla Bank">Serranilla Bank</a>) are claimed by the U.S. but administered by <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[13]</a> Historically, territories were created to administer newly acquired land, and most eventually <a href="/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union" title="Admission to the Union">attained statehood</a>.<a href="#cite_note-18">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[15]</a> The most recent territory to become a U.S. state was <a href="/wiki/Hawaii_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Hawaii Territory">Hawaii</a> on August 21, 1959.<a href="#cite_note-20">[16]</a> Politically and economically, the territories are underdeveloped. Residents of U.S. territories cannot vote in <a href="/wiki/U.S._presidential_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. presidential elections">U.S. presidential elections</a>, and they have only <a href="/wiki/Non-voting_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives">non-voting representation</a> in the U.S. Congress.<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a> According to 2012 data, territorial telecommunications and other infrastructure are generally inferior to that of the <a href="/wiki/Continental_U.S." class="mw-redirect" title="Continental U.S.">continental U.S.</a> and Hawaii.<a href="#cite_note-21">[17]</a> Poverty rates are higher in the territories than in the states.<a href="#cite_note-ASamoa_Medicaid-22">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[19]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organized_vs._unorganized_territories">Organized vs. unorganized territories</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Organized vs. unorganized territories">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a list of former organized territories, see <a href="/wiki/Historical_regions_of_the_United_States#Former_organized_territories" title="Historical regions of the United States">Historical regions of the United States § Former organized territories</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_1868-1876.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Map of the U.S. from 1868 to 1876" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/United_States_1868-1876.png/250px-United_States_1868-1876.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/United_States_1868-1876.png/330px-United_States_1868-1876.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/United_States_1868-1876.png/500px-United_States_1868-1876.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="677" /></a><figcaption>The United States from 1868 to 1876, including nine organized and two unorganized (at the time) territories</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Definition">Definition</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Definition">edit</a>]</div> Organized territories are lands under federal sovereignty (but not part of any state or the <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">federal district</a>) which were given a measure of <a href="/wiki/Self-governance" title="Self-governance">self-governance</a> by Congress through an <a href="/wiki/Organic_act" title="Organic act">organic act</a> subject to the Congress's plenary powers under the <a href="/wiki/Article_Four_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Clause_2:_Property_Clause" title="Article Four of the United States Constitution">territorial clause</a> of the Constitution's Article Four, section 3.<a href="#cite_note-24">[20]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_practice">Historical practice</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Historical practice">edit</a>]</div> The term unorganized was historically applied either to a newly acquired region not yet constituted as an <a href="/wiki/Historic_regions_of_the_United_States#Former_organized_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic regions of the United States">organized incorporated territory</a> (e.g. the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase" title="Louisiana Purchase">Louisiana Purchase</a> prior to the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Orleans" title="Territory of Orleans">Orleans Territory</a> and the <a href="/wiki/District_of_Louisiana" title="District of Louisiana">District of Louisiana</a>), or to a region previously part of an organized incorporated territory left "unorganized" after part of it had been organized and achieved the requirements for statehood (e.g. a large portion of <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Territory" title="Missouri Territory">Missouri Territory</a> became unorganized territory for several years after its southeastern section became the state of <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>). The <a href="/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act" title="Kansas–Nebraska Act">Kansas–Nebraska Act</a> of 1854 created the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_Territory" title="Kansas Territory">Kansas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Territory" title="Nebraska Territory">Nebraska</a> Territories, bringing organized government to the region once again. The creation of Kansas and Nebraska left the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> as the only unorganized territory in the Great Plains. In 1858, the western part of the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Territory" title="Minnesota Territory">Minnesota Territory</a> became unorganized when it was not included in the new state of <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>; this area was organized in 1861 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Dakota_Territory" title="Dakota Territory">Dakota Territory</a>. In 1890, the western half of the Indian Territory was organized as <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Territory" title="Oklahoma Territory">Oklahoma Territory</a>. The eastern half remained unorganized until 1907, when it was joined with Oklahoma Territory to form the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">State of Oklahoma</a>. Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Alaska" title="Department of Alaska">Department of Alaska</a> was unorganized from its acquisition in 1867 from <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire of Russia">Russia</a> until organized as the <a href="/wiki/District_of_Alaska" title="District of Alaska">District of Alaska</a> in 1884; it was organized as <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Territory">Alaska Territory</a> in 1912. Hawaii was also unorganized from the time of its <a href="/wiki/Annexation" title="Annexation">annexation</a> by the U.S. in 1898 until organized as <a href="/wiki/Hawaii_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Hawaii Territory">Hawaii Territory</a> in 1900. Regions that have been <a href="/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union" title="Admission to the Union">admitted</a> as states under the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">United States Constitution</a> in addition to the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">original thirteen</a> were, most often, prior to admission, territories or parts of territories of this kind. As the United States grew, the most populous parts of the organized territory would achieve statehood. Some territories existed only a short time before becoming states, while others remained territories for decades. The shortest-lived was <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Territory" title="Alabama Territory">Alabama Territory</a> at two years, while <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico_Territory" title="New Mexico Territory">New Mexico Territory</a> and Hawaii Territory both lasted more than 50 years. Of the 50 states, 31 were once part of an organized, incorporated U.S. territory. In addition to the original 13, six subsequent states never were: <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, and <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a> were each <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_partition_proposals" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. state partition proposals">separated from</a> an existing state;<a href="#cite_note-25">[21]</a> <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> were both <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">sovereign states</a> (de facto sovereignty for Vermont, as the region was claimed by New York) when they entered the Union; and <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> was part of <a href="#Formerly_unorganized_territories">unorganized</a> land <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Cession" title="Mexican Cession">ceded</a> to the United States by Mexico in 1848 at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Federal_administration_of_current_territories">Federal administration of current territories</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Federal administration of current territories">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_(%2Boverseas),_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_colored_(zoom).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/United_States_%28%2Boverseas%29%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_colored_%28zoom%29.svg/250px-United_States_%28%2Boverseas%29%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_colored_%28zoom%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/United_States_%28%2Boverseas%29%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_colored_%28zoom%29.svg/330px-United_States_%28%2Boverseas%29%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_colored_%28zoom%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/United_States_%28%2Boverseas%29%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_colored_%28zoom%29.svg/500px-United_States_%28%2Boverseas%29%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_colored_%28zoom%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1339" data-file-height="864" /></a><figcaption>Territories of the United States.</figcaption></figure> All of the five major U.S. territories are permanently inhabited and have locally elected territorial legislatures and executives and some degree of political <a href="/wiki/Autonomy" title="Autonomy">autonomy</a>. Four of the five are organized but American Samoa is technically unorganized. All of the U.S. territories without permanent non-military populations are unorganized. The <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Insular_Affairs" title="Office of Insular Affairs">Office of Insular Affairs</a> coordinates federal administration of the U.S. territories and freely associated states, except for Puerto Rico.<a href="#cite_note-26">[22]</a> On March 3, 1849, the last day of the 30th Congress, a bill was passed to create the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_the_Interior" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of the Interior">U.S. Department of the Interior</a> to take charge of the internal affairs of United States territory. The Interior Department has a wide range of responsibilities (which include the regulation of territorial governments, the basic responsibilities for public lands, and other various duties). In contrast to similarly named Departments in other countries, the United States Department of the Interior is not responsible for local government or for civil administration except in the cases of Indian reservations, through the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs" title="Bureau of Indian Affairs">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a> (BIA), and island dependencies administered by the Office of Insular Affairs. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Permanently_inhabited_territories">Permanently inhabited territories</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Permanently inhabited territories">edit</a>]</div> The U.S. has five permanently inhabited territories: <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">North Pacific Ocean</a>, and <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a> in the South Pacific Ocean.<a href="#cite_note-27">[note 5]</a> American Samoa is in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Hemisphere" title="Southern Hemisphere">Southern Hemisphere</a>, while the other four are in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere" title="Northern Hemisphere">Northern Hemisphere</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_ASamoa-28">[23]</a> In 2020, their combined population was about 3.62 million, over 90% of which is accounted for by Puerto Rico alone.<a href="#cite_note-census2020uspr-29">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-census2020vigumpas-30">[25]</a> People born in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands <a href="/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States" title="Birthright citizenship in the United States">acquire U.S. citizenship by birth</a>, and foreign nationals residing there may apply for <a href="/wiki/United_States_nationality_law" title="United States nationality law">U.S. citizenship by naturalization</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ASamoaHarvard-31">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-NatGeoAS-33">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[note 6]</a> People born in American Samoa acquire U.S. nationality but not U.S. citizenship by birth if they do not have a U.S. citizen parent.<a href="#cite_note-38">[note 7]</a> U.S. nationals without U.S. citizenship may hold U.S. passports and reside in any part of the United States without restriction.<a href="#cite_note-8-fam-301.1-1b-39">[32]</a> However, to become U.S. citizens they must apply for naturalization, like foreigners, and may only do so while residing in parts of the United States other than American Samoa.<a href="#cite_note-Slate1-40">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[note 8]</a> Foreign nationals residing in American Samoa cannot apply for U.S. citizenship or U.S. nationality at all.<a href="#cite_note-43">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[36]</a> Each territory is self-governing<a href="#cite_note-Harvard2017-10">[8]</a> with three branches of government, including a locally elected governor and a territorial legislature.<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a> Each territory elects a <a href="/wiki/Non-voting_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives">non-voting member</a> (a non-voting <a href="/wiki/Resident_Commissioner_of_Puerto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico">resident commissioner</a> in the case of Puerto Rico) to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>.<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[38]</a> Although they cannot vote on the passage of legislation, they can introduce legislation, have floor privileges to address the house, be members of and vote in committees, are assigned offices and staff funding, and may nominate constituents from their territories to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Military_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Military Academy">Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Naval_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Naval Academy">Naval</a>, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Air_Force_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Air Force Academy">Air Force</a> and <a href="/wiki/U.S._Merchant_Marine_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Merchant Marine Academy">Merchant Marine</a> academies.<a href="#cite_note-House_Learn-47">[39]</a> As of the <a href="/wiki/118th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="118th Congress">118th Congress</a>, the territories are represented by <a href="/wiki/Aumua_Amata_Radewagen" class="mw-redirect" title="Aumua Amata Radewagen">Aumua Amata Radewagen</a> (R) of American Samoa, <a href="/wiki/James_Moylan" title="James Moylan">James Moylan</a> (R) of Guam, <a href="/wiki/Gregorio_Sablan" title="Gregorio Sablan">Gregorio Sablan</a> (D) of Northern Mariana Islands, <a href="/wiki/Jenniffer_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Col%C3%B3n" title="Jenniffer González-Colón">Jenniffer González-Colón</a> (R-PNP) of Puerto Rico and <a href="/wiki/Stacey_Plaskett" title="Stacey Plaskett">Stacey Plaskett</a> (D) of U.S. Virgin Islands.<a href="#cite_note-48">[40]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">District of Columbia</a>'s delegate is <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Holmes_Norton" title="Eleanor Holmes Norton">Eleanor Holmes Norton</a> (D); like the district, the territories have no vote in Congress and no representation in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate">Senate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Territories1-49">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-PRStatehood-50">[42]</a> Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> has delegate-elect <a href="/wiki/Kimberly_Teehee" title="Kimberly Teehee">Kimberly Teehee</a>, who has not been seated by Congress. Every four years, U.S. political parties nominate presidential candidates at conventions which include delegates from the territories.<a href="#cite_note-51">[43]</a> U.S. citizens living in the territories can vote for presidential candidates in these primary elections but not in the general election.<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-Territories1-49">[41]</a> The territorial capitals are <a href="/wiki/Pago_Pago,_American_Samoa" title="Pago Pago, American Samoa">Pago Pago</a> (American Samoa), <a href="/wiki/Hag%C3%A5t%C3%B1a,_Guam" title="Hagåtña, Guam">Hagåtña</a> (Guam), <a href="/wiki/Saipan,_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands">Saipan</a> (Northern Mariana Islands), <a href="/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico" title="San Juan, Puerto Rico">San Juan</a> (Puerto Rico) and <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands">Charlotte Amalie</a> (U.S. Virgin Islands).<a href="#cite_note-CIAAS-52">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAGuam-53">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAPR-55">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAVI-56">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-NotQuite-58">[50]</a> Their governors are <a href="/wiki/Pula_Nikolao_Pula" title="Pula Nikolao Pula">Pula Nikolao Pula</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_American_Samoa" title="List of governors of American Samoa">American Samoa</a>), <a href="/wiki/Lou_Leon_Guerrero" title="Lou Leon Guerrero">Lou Leon Guerrero</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Guam" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Guam">Guam</a>), <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Palacios" title="Arnold Palacios">Arnold Palacios</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of the Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a>), <a href="/wiki/Jenniffer_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Col%C3%B3n" title="Jenniffer González-Colón">Jenniffer González-Colón</a> (<a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Governor of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Bryan_Jr." title="Albert Bryan Jr.">Albert Bryan Jr.</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of the United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a>). Among the inhabited territories, <a href="/wiki/Supplemental_Security_Income" title="Supplemental Security Income">Supplemental Security Income</a> (SSI) is available only in the Northern Mariana Islands;<a href="#cite_note-59">[note 9]</a> however, in 2019 a U.S. judge ruled that the federal government's denial of SSI benefits to residents of Puerto Rico is unconstitutional.<a href="#cite_note-60">[51]</a> This ruling was later overturned by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a>, allowing for the exclusion of territories from such programs.<a href="#cite_note-61">[52]</a> In the decision, the court explained that the exemption of island residents from most federal income taxes provides a "rational basis" for their exclusion from eligibility for SSI payments.<a href="#cite_note-62">[53]</a> American Samoa is the only U.S. territory with its own immigration system (a system separate from the United States immigration system).<a href="#cite_note-DOI_AS-63">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[55]</a> American Samoa also has a communal land system in which 90% of the land is communally owned; ownership is based on Samoan ancestry.<a href="#cite_note-65">[56]</a> <table class="Shortable wikitable sortable"> <caption>Overview of populated American territories<a href="#cite_note-CIAAS-52">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAGuam-53">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAPR-55">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAVI-56">[48]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Name (<a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_and_territory_abbreviations" title="List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations">abbreviation</a>) </th> <th>Location </th> <th>Area </th> <th>Population (2020)<a href="#cite_note-census2020uspr-29">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-census2020vigumpas-30">[25]</a> </th> <th>Capital </th> <th>Largest town </th> <th>Status </th> <th>Acquired </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/40px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/60px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a> (AS) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">South Pacific</a>) </td> <td>197.1 km2 (76 sq mi) </td> <td>49,710 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pago_Pago,_American_Samoa" title="Pago Pago, American Samoa">Pago Pago</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tafuna,_American_Samoa" title="Tafuna, American Samoa">Tafuna</a> </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized<a href="#cite_note-66">[note 10]</a> </td> <td>April 17, 1900 </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/23px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/35px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/46px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="738" data-file-height="396" /> <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> (GU) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Micronesia" title="Micronesia">Micronesia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">North Pacific</a>) </td> <td>543 km2 (210 sq mi) </td> <td>153,836 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hag%C3%A5t%C3%B1a,_Guam" title="Hagåtña, Guam">Hagåtña</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dededo" title="Dededo">Dededo</a> </td> <td>Unincorporated, organized </td> <td>April 11, 1899 </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="550" /> <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> (MP) </td> <td>Micronesia (North Pacific) </td> <td>463.63 km2 (179 sq mi) </td> <td>47,329 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Saipan,_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands">Saipan</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[note 11]</a> </td> <td>Saipan<a href="#cite_note-68">[note 12]</a> </td> <td>Unincorporated, organized (<a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area)" title="Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)">Commonwealth</a>) </td> <td>November 4, 1986<a href="#cite_note-70">[note 13]</a><a href="#cite_note-CNMI_1986-71">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-FAM_1986-69">[57]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/40px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/60px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> (PR) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">North Atlantic</a>) </td> <td>9,104 km2 (3,515 sq mi) </td> <td>3,285,874 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico" title="San Juan, Puerto Rico">San Juan</a> </td> <td>San Juan </td> <td>Unincorporated, organized (Commonwealth) </td> <td>April 11, 1899<a href="#cite_note-easternct-72">[59]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1275" data-file-height="850" /> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a> (VI) </td> <td>Caribbean (North Atlantic) </td> <td>346.36 km2 (134 sq mi) </td> <td>87,146 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands">Charlotte Amalie</a> </td> <td>Charlotte Amalie </td> <td>Unincorporated, organized </td> <td>March 31, 1917<a href="#cite_note-73">[60]</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History">History</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>American Samoa: territory since 1900; after the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Samoan_Civil_War" title="Second Samoan Civil War">Second Samoan Civil War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Samoan_Islands" title="Samoan Islands">Samoan Islands</a> were divided into two regions. The U.S. took control of the eastern half of the islands.<a href="#cite_note-74">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-Britannica_ASamoa-28">[23]</a> In 1900, the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Cession_of_Tutuila" title="Treaty of Cession of Tutuila">Treaty of Cession of Tutuila</a> took effect.<a href="#cite_note-ASamoa1900-75">[62]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Manu%CA%BBa_Islands" title="Manuʻa Islands">Manuʻa Islands</a> <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Cession_of_Manu%27a" title="Treaty of Cession of Manu'a">became part</a> of American Samoa in 1904, and <a href="/wiki/Swains_Island" title="Swains Island">Swains Island</a> became part of American Samoa in 1925.<a href="#cite_note-ASamoa1900-75">[62]</a> Congress <a href="/wiki/Ratification_Act_of_1929" title="Ratification Act of 1929">ratified</a> American Samoa's treaties in 1929.<a href="#cite_note-ASamoa1900-75">[62]</a> For 51 years, the U.S. Navy controlled the territory.<a href="#cite_note-LA_AS-41">[34]</a> American Samoa is locally self-governing under a constitution last revised in 1967.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_ASamoa-28">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[note 14]</a> The first elected governor of American Samoa was in 1977, and the first non-voting member of Congress was in 1981.<a href="#cite_note-LA_AS-41">[34]</a> By <a href="/wiki/Jus_soli" title="Jus soli">jus soli</a>, people born in American Samoa are <a href="/wiki/United_States_nationality_law" title="United States nationality law">U.S. nationals, but not U.S. citizens</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ASamoaHarvard-31">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-Britannica_ASamoa-28">[23]</a> American Samoa is technically unorganized,<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_ASamoa-28">[23]</a> and its main island is <a href="/wiki/Tutuila" title="Tutuila">Tutuila</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_ASamoa-28">[23]</a></li> <li>Guam: territory since 1899, acquired at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_Guam-78">[64]</a> Guam is the home of <a href="/wiki/Naval_Base_Guam" title="Naval Base Guam">Naval Base Guam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Andersen_Air_Force_Base" title="Andersen Air Force Base">Andersen Air Force Base</a>. It was organized under the <a href="/wiki/Guam_Organic_Act_of_1950" title="Guam Organic Act of 1950">Guam Organic Act of 1950</a>, which granted U.S. citizenship to Guamanians and gave Guam a local government.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_Guam-78">[64]</a> In 1968, the act was amended to permit the election of a governor.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_Guam-78">[64]</a></li> <li>Northern Mariana Islands: A commonwealth since 1986,<a href="#cite_note-CNMI_1986-71">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-FAM_1986-69">[57]</a> the Northern Mariana Islands together with Guam were part of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a> until 1899 when the Northern Marianas were sold to the <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a> after the Spanish–American War.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_CNMI-79">[65]</a> Beginning in 1919, they were administered by Japan as a <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> mandate until the islands were captured by the United States in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan" title="Battle of Saipan">Battle of Saipan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tinian" title="Battle of Tinian">Battle of Tinian</a> (June–August 1944) and the surrender of <a href="/wiki/Aguiguan" title="Aguiguan">Aguiguan</a> (September 1945) during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_CNMI-79">[65]</a> They became part of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands">United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a> (TTPI) in 1947, administered by the United States as U.N. trustee.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_CNMI-79">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-FAM_1986-69">[57]</a> The other constituents of the TTPI were <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Federated States of Micronesia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_the_Marshall_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of the Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[66]</a> Following failed efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to reunify Guam and the Northern Marianas,<a href="#cite_note-81">[67]</a> a covenant to establish the Northern Mariana Islands as a commonwealth in political union with the United States was negotiated by representatives of both political bodies; it was approved by Northern Mariana Islands voters in 1975, and came into force on March 24, 1976.<a href="#cite_note-Britannica_CNMI-79">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a> In accordance with the covenant, the Northern Mariana Islands constitution partially took effect on January 9, 1978, and became fully effective on November 4, 1986.<a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a> In 1986, the Northern Mariana Islands formally left U.N. trusteeship.<a href="#cite_note-CNMI_1986-71">[58]</a> The abbreviations "CNMI" and "NMI" are both used in the commonwealth. Most residents in the Northern Mariana Islands live on <a href="/wiki/Saipan" class="mw-redirect" title="Saipan">Saipan</a>, the main island.<a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a></li> <li>Puerto Rico: unincorporated territory since 1899;<a href="#cite_note-easternct-72">[59]</a> Puerto Rico was acquired at the end of the Spanish–American War,<a href="#cite_note-82">[68]</a> and has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952.<a href="#cite_note-83">[69]</a> Since 1917, Puerto Ricans have been granted U.S. citizenship.<a href="#cite_note-84">[70]</a> Puerto Rico was organized under the <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Federal_Relations_Act_of_1950" title="Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950">Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950</a> (Public Law 600). In November 2008, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a series of Congressional actions have had the cumulative effect of changing Puerto Rico's status from unincorporated to incorporated.<a href="#cite_note-85">[71]</a> The issue is proceeding through the courts, however,<a href="#cite_note-86">[72]</a> and the U.S. government still refers to Puerto Rico as unincorporated. A Puerto Rican attorney has called the island "semi-sovereign".<a href="#cite_note-87">[73]</a> Puerto Rico has a <a href="/wiki/Statehood_movement_in_Puerto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="Statehood movement in Puerto Rico">statehood movement</a>, whose goal is to make the territory the <a href="/wiki/51st_state" title="51st state">51st state</a>.<a href="#cite_note-PRStatehood-50">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-88">[74]</a> See also <a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Political status of Puerto Rico">Political status of Puerto Rico</a>.</li> <li>U.S. Virgin Islands: purchased by the U.S. from <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> in 1917 and organized under the <a href="/wiki/Revised_Organic_Act_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands">Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands</a> in 1954. U.S. citizenship was granted in 1927.<a href="#cite_note-89">[75]</a> The main islands are <a href="/wiki/Saint_Thomas,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands">Saint Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_John,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands">Saint John</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Croix,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands">Saint Croix</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CIAVI-56">[48]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Statistics">Statistics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Statistics">edit</a>]</div> Except for Guam, the inhabited territories lost population in 2020. Although the territories have higher poverty rates than the mainland U.S., they have high <a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">Human Development Indexes</a>. Four of the five territories have another official language, in addition to English.<a href="#cite_note-Languages1-90">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-Languages2-91">[77]</a> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <caption>Statistical overview of American territories </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Territory </th> <th scope="col">Official language(s)<a href="#cite_note-Languages1-90">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-Languages2-91">[77]</a> </th> <th scope="col">Pop. change (2021 est.) <a href="#cite_note-CIAAS-52">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAGuam-53">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAPR-55">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAVI-56">[48]</a> </th> <th scope="col">Poverty rate<a href="#cite_note-92">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[79]</a> </th> <th scope="col">Life expectancy in 2018–2020 (years) <a href="#cite_note-94">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAAS-52">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAGuam-53">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAPR-55">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAVI-56">[48]</a> </th> <th scope="col">HDI<a href="#cite_note-95">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-96">[82]</a> </th> <th scope="col">GDP ($)<a href="#cite_note-Worldbank1-97">[83]</a> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic" title="Left- and right-hand traffic">Traffic flow</a> </th> <th scope="col">Time zone </th> <th scope="col">Area code (+1) </th> <th scope="col">Largest ethnicity </th></tr> <tr> <td align="left">American Samoa </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samoan_language" title="Samoan language">Samoan</a>, English </td> <td>−2.1% </td> <td>65% (2017)<a href="#cite_note-99">[note 15]</a> </td> <td>74.8 </td> <td>0.827 </td> <td>$0.636 billion </td> <td>Right </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samoa_Time_Zone" title="Samoa Time Zone">Samoan Time</a> (UTC−11) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Area_code_684" title="Area code 684">684</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander" title="Pacific Islander">Pacific Islander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Samoans" title="Samoans">Samoan</a>)<a href="#cite_note-100">[85]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Guam </td> <td>English, <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_language" title="Chamorro language">Chamorro</a> </td> <td>+0.18% </td> <td>22.9% (2009) </td> <td>79.86 </td> <td>0.901 </td> <td>$5.92 billion </td> <td>Right </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chamorro_Time_Zone" title="Chamorro Time Zone">Chamorro Time</a> (UTC+10) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Area_code_671" title="Area code 671">671</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander" title="Pacific Islander">Pacific Islander</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chamorro_people" title="Chamorro people">Chamorro</a>)<a href="#cite_note-101">[86]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Northern Mariana Islands </td> <td>English, Chamorro, <a href="/wiki/Carolinian_language" title="Carolinian language">Carolinian</a> </td> <td>−0.36% </td> <td>52.3% (2009) </td> <td>76.1 </td> <td>0.875 </td> <td>$1.323 billion </td> <td>Right </td> <td>Chamorro Time </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Area_code_670" title="Area code 670">670</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_people" title="Asian people">Asian</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[87]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Puerto Rico </td> <td>Spanish, English </td> <td>−1.46% </td> <td>43.1% (2018) </td> <td>79.78 </td> <td>0.845 </td> <td>$104.98 billion </td> <td>Right </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Time_Zone" title="Atlantic Time Zone">Atlantic Time</a> (UTC−4) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Telephone numbers in Puerto Rico">787, 939</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a>/Latino (<a href="/wiki/Puerto_Ricans" title="Puerto Ricans">Puerto Rican</a>)<a href="#cite_note-103">[note 16]</a><a href="#cite_note-104">[88]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">U.S. Virgin Islands </td> <td>English </td> <td>−0.42% </td> <td>22.4% (2009) </td> <td>79.57 </td> <td>0.894 </td> <td>$3.85 billion </td> <td>Left </td> <td>Atlantic Time </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Area_code_340" title="Area code 340">340</a> </td> <td>African-American<a href="#cite_note-105">[89]</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> The territories do not have administrative <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">counties</a>.<a href="#cite_note-108">[note 17]</a> The U.S. Census Bureau counts Puerto Rico's 78 <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Municipalities of Puerto Rico">municipalities</a>, the U.S. Virgin Islands' three main islands, all of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands' four municipalities, and American Samoa's <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">three districts and two atolls</a> as county equivalents.<a href="#cite_note-County1-106">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-County2-107">[91]</a> The Census Bureau also counts each of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">U.S. Minor Outlying Islands</a> as county equivalents.<a href="#cite_note-County1-106">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-County2-107">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-ANSI_1-109">[92]</a> For statistical purposes, the U.S. Census Bureau has a defined area called the "Island Areas" which consists of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (every major territory except Puerto Rico).<a href="#cite_note-Census2010_2012-110">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-112">[95]</a> The U.S. Census Bureau often treats Puerto Rico as its own entity or groups it with the states and D.C. (for example, Puerto Rico has a QuickFacts page just like the states and D.C.)<a href="#cite_note-113">[96]</a> Puerto Rico data is collected annually in <a href="/wiki/American_Community_Survey" title="American Community Survey">American Community Survey</a> estimates (just like the states), but data for the other territories is collected only once every ten years.<a href="#cite_note-114">[97]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Governments_and_legislatures">Governments and legislatures</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Governments and legislatures">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_American_Samoa" title="Politics of American Samoa">Politics of American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Guam" title="Politics of Guam">Politics of Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands">Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Politics of Puerto Rico">Politics of Puerto Rico</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Politics of the United States Virgin Islands">Politics of the United States Virgin Islands</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AmericanSamoaLegislatureBuilding.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/AmericanSamoaLegislatureBuilding.jpg/215px-AmericanSamoaLegislatureBuilding.jpg" decoding="async" width="215" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/AmericanSamoaLegislatureBuilding.jpg/323px-AmericanSamoaLegislatureBuilding.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/AmericanSamoaLegislatureBuilding.jpg/430px-AmericanSamoaLegislatureBuilding.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa_Fono" title="American Samoa Fono">American Samoa Fono</a></figcaption></figure> The five major inhabited territories contain the following governments and legislatures: <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <caption>Governments and legislatures of the U.S. territories </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Government </th> <th scope="col">Legislature </th> <th scope="col">Legislature form </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Government_of_American_Samoa" title="Government of American Samoa">Government of American Samoa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa_Fono" title="American Samoa Fono">American Samoa Fono</a> </td> <td>Bicameral </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Guam" title="Government of Guam">Government of Guam</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Legislature_of_Guam" title="Legislature of Guam">Legislature of Guam</a> </td> <td>Unicameral </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands">Government of the Northern Mariana Islands</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands_Commonwealth_Legislature" title="Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature">N. Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature</a> </td> <td>Bicameral </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Government of Puerto Rico">Government of Puerto Rico</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico">Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico</a> </td> <td>Bicameral </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Politics of the United States Virgin Islands">Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Legislature_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="Legislature of the Virgin Islands">Legislature of the Virgin Islands</a> </td> <td>Unicameral </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Political_party_status">Political party status</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Political party status">edit</a>]</div> The following is the political party status of the governments of the U.S. territories following completion of the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_elections" title="2024 United States elections">2024 United States elections</a>. Instances where local and national party affiliation differs, the national affiliation is listed second. Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands have <a href="/wiki/Unicameralism" title="Unicameralism">unicameral</a> territorial legislatures. <table class="sortable wikitable"> <caption>Political party affiliation in the American territories </caption> <tbody><tr align="center"> <th scope="col">Territory </th> <th scope="col">Governor </th> <th scope="col">Territory Senate </th> <th scope="col">Territory House </th> <th scope="col">U.S. House of Representatives </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a> </td> <td style="background:#CCCCCC">Non-Partisan Republican </td> <td style="background:#CCCCCC">Non-Partisan </td> <td style="background:#CCCCCC">Non-Partisan </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Republican </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Democratic </td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Republican 9–6 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Republican </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Republican </td> <td style="background:#d9b2d9">Republican 4–2–3<a href="#cite_note-115">[a]</a> </td> <td style="background:#d9b2d9">Independent 13–4–3<a href="#cite_note-116">[b]</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Republican </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> </td> <td style="background:#D7EAF9">New Progressive Republican </td> <td style="background:#D7EAF9">New Progressive 19–5–2–1–1<a href="#cite_note-117">[c]</a> </td> <td style="background:#D7EAF9">New Progressive 36–13–3–1<a href="#cite_note-118">[d]</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#EE6363">Popular Democratic Democratic </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Democratic </td> <td colspan="2" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Democratic 12–3<a href="#cite_note-119">[e]</a> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Democratic </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: close;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-115"><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a> Republicans hold a nominal majority with 4 seats; however, the 3 independents and 2 Democrats formed a coalition government for the 23rd Senate, leaving the Republicans in the minority. </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a> Independents hold a majority with 13 seats, Democrats hold 4, and Republicans hold 3. A governing coalition was formed with 12 independents and the 4 Democrats. </li> <li id="cite_note-117"><a href="#cite_ref-117">^</a> New Progressive Party has 19 seats, Popular Democratic Party 5, Puerto Rico Independence Party 1, Project Dignity 1, and Independent 1 </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a> The New Progressive Party has 36 seats, Popular Democratic Party 13, Puerto Rico Independence Party 3, and Project Dignity 1 </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a> Democrats hold 12 seats with independents holding the remaining 3 </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Courts">Courts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Courts">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guam_Judicial_Center2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Guam_Judicial_Center2.JPG/215px-Guam_Judicial_Center2.JPG" decoding="async" width="215" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Guam_Judicial_Center2.JPG/323px-Guam_Judicial_Center2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Guam_Judicial_Center2.JPG/430px-Guam_Judicial_Center2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Building where the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Guam" title="Supreme Court of Guam">Supreme Court of Guam</a> is located</figcaption></figure> Each of the five major territories has its own local court system: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/High_Court_of_American_Samoa" title="High Court of American Samoa">High Court of American Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Guam" title="Supreme Court of Guam">Supreme Court of Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands_Supreme_Court" title="Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court">Supreme Court of the Northern Mariana Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Supreme Court of Puerto Rico">Supreme Court of Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands">Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands</a></li></ul> Of the five major territories, only Puerto Rico has an <a href="/wiki/Article_Three_of_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Article Three of the United States Constitution">Article III</a> federal district court (i.e., equivalent to the courts in the fifty states); it became an Article III court in 1966.<a href="#cite_note-FedCourts1-120">[98]</a> This means that, unlike other U.S. territories, federal judges in Puerto Rico have life tenure.<a href="#cite_note-FedCourts1-120">[98]</a> Federal courts in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands are <a href="/wiki/Article_Four_of_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Article Four of the United States Constitution">Article IV</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_territorial_court" title="United States territorial court">territorial courts</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FedCourts1-120">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[99]</a> The following is a list of federal territorial courts, plus Puerto Rico's court: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/District_Court_of_Guam" title="District Court of Guam">District Court of Guam</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">Ninth Circuit</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_Court_for_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands">District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">Ninth Circuit</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Puerto_Rico" title="United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico">District Court for the District of Puerto Rico</a> (not a territorial court) (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit">First Circuit</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_Court_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="District Court of the Virgin Islands">District Court of the Virgin Islands</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit">Third Circuit</a>)</li></ul> American Samoa does not have a federal territorial court, and so federal matters in American Samoa are sent to either the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Hawaii" title="United States District Court for the District of Hawaii">District court of Hawaii</a> or the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Columbia" title="United States District Court for the District of Columbia">District court of the District of Columbia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-GAO_AS1-122">[100]</a> American Samoa is the only permanently inhabited region of the United States with no federal court.<a href="#cite_note-GAO_AS1-122">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Demographics">Demographics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Demographics">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_American_Samoa" title="Demographics of American Samoa">Demographics of American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Guam" title="Demographics of Guam">Demographics of Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Demographics of the Northern Mariana Islands">Demographics of the Northern Mariana Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Demographics of Puerto Rico">Demographics of Puerto Rico</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Demographics of the United States Virgin Islands">Demographics of the United States Virgin Islands</a></div> While the U.S. mainland is majority non-Hispanic <a href="/wiki/White_Americans" title="White Americans">White</a>,<a href="#cite_note-123">[101]</a> this is not the case for the U.S. territories. In 2010, American Samoa's population was 92.6% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_Americans" title="Pacific Islander Americans">Pacific Islander</a> (including 88.9% <a href="/wiki/Samoan_Americans" title="Samoan Americans">Samoan</a>); Guam's population was 49.3% Pacific Islander (including 37.3% <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_people" title="Chamorro people">Chamorro</a>) and 32.2% <a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> (including 26.3% <a href="/wiki/Filipino_Americans" title="Filipino Americans">Filipino</a>); the population of the Northern Mariana Islands was 34.9% Pacific Islander and 49.9% Asian; and the population of the U.S. Virgin Islands was 76.0% <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African American</a>.<a href="#cite_note-124">[102]</a> In 2019, Puerto Rico's population was 98.9% <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a>, 67.4% white, and 0.8% non-Hispanic white.<a href="#cite_note-PRCensus1-125">[103]</a> Throughout the 2010s, the U.S. territories (overall) lost population. The combined population of the five inhabited territories was 4,100,594 in 2010,<a href="#cite_note-Census2010_2012-110">[93]</a> and 3,569,284 in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-CIAAS-52">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAGuam-53">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIACNMI-54">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAPR-55">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAVI-56">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-PRCensus1-125">[103]</a> The U.S. territories have <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_religiosity" title="List of U.S. states and territories by religiosity">high religiosity rates</a>—American Samoa has the highest religiosity rate in the United States (99.3% religious and 98.3% Christian).<a href="#cite_note-CIAAS-52">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economies">Economies</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Economies">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_American_Samoa" title="Economy of American Samoa">Economy of American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Guam" title="Economy of Guam">Economy of Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Economy of the Northern Mariana Islands">Economy of the Northern Mariana Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Economy of Puerto Rico">Economy of Puerto Rico</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Economy of the United States Virgin Islands">Economy of the United States Virgin Islands</a></div> The economies of the U.S. territories vary from Puerto Rico, which has a GDP of $104.989 billion in 2019, to American Samoa, which has a GDP of $636 million in 2018.<a href="#cite_note-Worldbank1-97">[83]</a> In 2018, Puerto Rico exported about $18 billion in goods, with the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> as the largest destination.<a href="#cite_note-126">[104]</a> Guam's GDP shrank by 0.3% in 2018, the GDP of the Northern Mariana Islands shrank by 19.6% in 2018, Puerto Rico's GDP grew by 1.18% in 2019, and the U.S. Virgin Islands' GDP grew by 1.5% in 2018.<a href="#cite_note-127">[105]</a><a href="#cite_note-128">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAPR-55">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-130">[108]</a> In 2017, American Samoa's GDP shrank by 5.8%, but then grew by 2.2% in 2018.<a href="#cite_note-131">[109]</a> American Samoa has the <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_income" title="List of U.S. states and territories by income">lowest per capita income</a> in the United States—it has a per capita income comparable to that of <a href="/wiki/Botswana" title="Botswana">Botswana</a>.<a href="#cite_note-132">[110]</a> In 2010, American Samoa's per capita income was $6,311.<a href="#cite_note-AS_income1-133">[111]</a> As of 2010, the <a href="/wiki/Manu%CA%BBa_Islands" title="Manuʻa Islands">Manuʻa District</a> in American Samoa had a per capita income of $5,441, the lowest of any county or county-equivalent in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-AS_income1-133">[111]</a> In 2018, Puerto Rico had a median household income of $20,166 (lower than the median household income of any state).<a href="#cite_note-PRCensus1-125">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-134">[112]</a> Also in 2018, <a href="/wiki/Comer%C3%ADo,_Puerto_Rico" title="Comerío, Puerto Rico">Comerío Municipality, Puerto Rico</a> had a median household income of $12,812 (the <a href="/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States" title="List of lowest-income counties in the United States">lowest median household income</a> of any populated county or county-equivalent in the U.S.)<a href="#cite_note-135">[113]</a> <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> has much higher incomes (Guam had a median household income of $48,274 in 2010.)<a href="#cite_note-136">[114]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Minor_Outlying_Islands">Minor Outlying Islands</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Minor Outlying Islands">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">United States Minor Outlying Islands</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">United States Minor Outlying Islands</a> are small uninhabited islands, <a href="/wiki/Atoll" title="Atoll">atolls</a>, and reefs. <a href="/wiki/Baker_Island" title="Baker Island">Baker Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howland_Island" title="Howland Island">Howland Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Island" title="Jarvis Island">Jarvis Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnston_Atoll" title="Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingman_Reef" title="Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a> are in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> while <a href="/wiki/Navassa_Island" title="Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a> is in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a>. The additional claimed territories of <a href="/wiki/Bajo_Nuevo_Bank" title="Bajo Nuevo Bank">Bajo Nuevo Bank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Serranilla_Bank" title="Serranilla Bank">Serranilla Bank</a> are also located in the Caribbean Sea. Palmyra Atoll (formally known as the United States Territory of Palmyra Island)<a href="#cite_note-137">[115]</a> is the only incorporated territory, a status it has maintained since Hawaii became a state in 1959.<a href="#cite_note-DOI_OIA-12">[10]</a> All are uninhabited except for Midway Atoll, whose approximately 40 inhabitants (as of 2004) were employees of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</a> and their services provider;<a href="#cite_note-138">[116]</a> Palmyra Atoll, whose population varies from four to 20 <a href="/wiki/The_Nature_Conservancy" title="The Nature Conservancy">Nature Conservancy</a> and Fish and Wildlife staff and researchers;<a href="#cite_note-139">[117]</a> and Wake Island, which has a population of about 100 military personnel and civilian employees.<a href="#cite_note-CIAWake-140">[118]</a> The two-letter abbreviation for the islands collectively is "UM".<a href="#cite_note-ANSI_1-109">[92]</a> The status of several islands is disputed. Navassa Island is disputed by <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>,<a href="#cite_note-CIANavassa-141">[119]</a> Wake Island is disputed by the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>,<a href="#cite_note-CIAWake-140">[118]</a> <a href="/wiki/Swains_Island" title="Swains Island">Swains Island</a> (a part of <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>) is disputed by <a href="/wiki/Tokelau" title="Tokelau">Tokelau</a>,<a href="#cite_note-142">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-CIAAS-52">[44]</a> and Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank are both administered by Colombia, whose claim is disputed by the U.S. and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>.<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-143">[121]</a> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Overview of standard Minor Outlying Islands </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Location </th> <th>Area </th> <th>Status </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Baker_Island" title="Baker Island">Baker Island</a><a href="#cite_note-PRINM-144">[a]</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">North Pacific</a>) </td> <td>2.1 km2 (0.81 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Claimed under the <a href="/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act" title="Guano Islands Act">Guano Islands Act</a> on October 28, 1856.<a href="#cite_note-guano-145">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-doi-acquisition-146">[123]</a> Annexed on May 13, 1936, and placed under the jurisdiction of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior" title="United States Department of the Interior">United States Department of the Interior</a>.<a href="#cite_note-EO-147">[124]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Howland_Island" title="Howland Island">Howland Island</a><a href="#cite_note-PRINM-144">[a]</a> </td> <td>Polynesia (North Pacific) </td> <td>4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Claimed under the Guano Islands Act on December 3, 1858.<a href="#cite_note-guano-145">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-doi-acquisition-146">[123]</a> Annexed on May 13, 1936, and placed under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department.<a href="#cite_note-EO-147">[124]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Island" title="Jarvis Island">Jarvis Island</a><a href="#cite_note-PRINM-144">[a]</a> </td> <td>Polynesia (<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">South Pacific</a>) </td> <td>4.75 km2 (1.83 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Claimed under the Guano Islands Act on October 28, 1856.<a href="#cite_note-guano-145">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-doi-acquisition-146">[123]</a> Annexed on May 13, 1936, and placed under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department.<a href="#cite_note-EO-147">[124]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Johnston_Atoll" title="Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a><a href="#cite_note-PRINM-144">[a]</a> </td> <td>Polynesia (North Pacific) </td> <td>2.67 km2 (1.03 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Last used by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">U.S. Department of Defense</a> in 2004. </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Kingman_Reef" title="Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a><a href="#cite_note-PRINM-144">[a]</a> </td> <td>Polynesia (North Pacific) </td> <td>18 km2 (6.9 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Claimed under the Guano Islands Act on February 8, 1860.<a href="#cite_note-guano-145">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-doi-acquisition-146">[123]</a> Annexed on May 10, 1922, and placed under the jurisdiction of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Navy" title="United States Department of the Navy">Navy Department</a> on December 29, 1934.<a href="#cite_note-doi-kingman-148">[125]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a> </td> <td>Polynesia (North Pacific) </td> <td>6.2 km2 (2.4 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Territory since 1859; primarily a <a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll#National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Midway Atoll">National Wildlife Refuge</a> and previously under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department. </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Navassa_Island" title="Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">North Atlantic</a>) </td> <td>5.4 km2 (2.1 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Territory since 1857; also claimed by <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CIANavassa-141">[119]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a> </td> <td>Polynesia (North Pacific) </td> <td>12 km2 (5 sq mi) </td> <td>Incorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Partially privately owned by <a href="/wiki/The_Nature_Conservancy" title="The Nature Conservancy">The Nature Conservancy</a>, with much of the rest <a href="/wiki/Federal_lands" title="Federal lands">owned by the federal government</a> and managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service.<a href="#cite_note-149">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[127]</a> It is an <a href="/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">archipelago</a> of about fifty small islands with a land area of about 1.56 sq mi (4.0 km2), about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Oahu" title="Oahu">Oahu</a>. The atoll was acquired through the annexation of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Hawaii" title="Republic of Hawaii">Republic of Hawaii</a> in 1898. When the Territory of Hawaii was incorporated on April 30, 1900, Palmyra Atoll was incorporated as part of that territory. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, however, an <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress" title="Act of Congress">act of Congress</a> excluded the atoll from the state. Palmyra remained an incorporated territory, but received no new, organized government.<a href="#cite_note-DOI_OIA-12">[10]</a> U.S. sovereignty over Palmyra Atoll (and Hawaii) is disputed by the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_sovereignty_movement" title="Hawaiian sovereignty movement">Hawaiian sovereignty movement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-151">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[129]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a><a href="#cite_note-PRINM-144">[a]</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Micronesia" title="Micronesia">Micronesia</a> (North Pacific) </td> <td>7.4 km2 (2.9 sq mi) </td> <td>Unincorporated, unorganized </td> <td>Territory since 1898; host to the <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island_Airfield" title="Wake Island Airfield">Wake Island Airfield</a>, administered by the U.S. Air Force. Wake Island is claimed by the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CIAWake-140">[118]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: close;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-PRINM-144">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PRINM_144-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PRINM_144-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PRINM_144-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PRINM_144-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PRINM_144-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-PRINM_144-5">f</a> These six unincorporated territories and Palmyra Atoll make up the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Heritage_Marine_National_Monument" title="Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument">Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument</a>. </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Claimed_territories">Claimed territories</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Claimed territories">edit</a>]</div> The following two territories are claimed by multiple countries (including the United States)<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a> and are not included in <a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:UM" title="ISO 3166-2:UM">ISO 3166-2:UM</a>. However, they are sometimes grouped with the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. According to the GAO, "the United States conducts maritime law enforcement operations in and around Serranilla Bank and Bajo Nuevo [Bank] consistent with U.S. sovereignty claims."<a href="#cite_note-GAO1997-9">[7]</a> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Overview of disputed Minor Outlying Islands </caption> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <th>Name </th> <th>Location </th> <th>Area </th> <th>Status </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Bajo_Nuevo_Bank" title="Bajo Nuevo Bank">Bajo Nuevo Bank</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">North Atlantic</a>) </td> <td>110 km2 (42 sq mi) </td> <td>Claimed </td> <td>Controlled by <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>. Claimed by the United States (under the Guano Islands Act) and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>. A claim by <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> was resolved in 2012 in favor of Colombia by the International Court of Justice, although the U.S. was not a party to that case and does not recognize the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction.<a href="#cite_note-ICJ-153">[130]</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="/wiki/Serranilla_Bank" title="Serranilla Bank">Serranilla Bank</a> </td> <td>Caribbean (North Atlantic) </td> <td>350 km2 (140 sq mi) </td> <td>Claimed </td> <td>Controlled by <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>; site of a naval garrison. Claimed by the United States (since 1879 under the Guano Islands Act) and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>. A claim by <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> was resolved in 2012 in favor of Colombia by the <a href="/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice" title="International Court of Justice">International Court of Justice</a>, although the United States was not a party to that case and does not recognize the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction.<a href="#cite_note-ICJ-153">[130]</a> A claim by <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> was settled in a 1986 treaty over maritime boundaries with Colombia.<a href="#cite_note-154">[131]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories">Incorporated vs. unincorporated territories</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Incorporated vs. unincorporated territories">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area#Insular_areas" title="Unincorporated area">Unincorporated area § Insular areas</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Juan_skyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="San Juan skyline, with a large, old white building in the foreground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/San_Juan_skyline.jpg/220px-San_Juan_skyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/San_Juan_skyline.jpg/330px-San_Juan_skyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/San_Juan_skyline.jpg/440px-San_Juan_skyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2044" data-file-height="816" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico" title="San Juan, Puerto Rico">San Juan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Protestantcaystcroix.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Waterfront, with sailboats and brilliant blue water" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Protestantcaystcroix.jpg/220px-Protestantcaystcroix.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Protestantcaystcroix.jpg/330px-Protestantcaystcroix.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Protestantcaystcroix.jpg/440px-Protestantcaystcroix.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Protestant_Cay" title="Protestant Cay">Protestant Cay</a> in <a href="/wiki/Christiansted,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands">Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tumon_Beach.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Beach, with modern buildings in the background" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tumon_Beach.JPG/220px-Tumon_Beach.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tumon_Beach.JPG/330px-Tumon_Beach.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tumon_Beach.JPG/440px-Tumon_Beach.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1708" data-file-height="1197" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tumon,_Guam" title="Tumon, Guam">Tumon Beach</a> in <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mount_Tapochau.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Green mountain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Mount_Tapochau.JPG/220px-Mount_Tapochau.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Mount_Tapochau.JPG/330px-Mount_Tapochau.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Mount_Tapochau.JPG/440px-Mount_Tapochau.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mount_Tapochau" title="Mount Tapochau">Mount Tapochau</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ofu_Beach_American_Samoa_US_National_Park_Service.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Ofu Beach, Manu'a Islands, American Samoa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Ofu_Beach_American_Samoa_US_National_Park_Service.jpg/250px-Ofu_Beach_American_Samoa_US_National_Park_Service.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Ofu_Beach_American_Samoa_US_National_Park_Service.jpg/330px-Ofu_Beach_American_Samoa_US_National_Park_Service.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Ofu_Beach_American_Samoa_US_National_Park_Service.jpg/500px-Ofu_Beach_American_Samoa_US_National_Park_Service.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Ofu Beach on <a href="/wiki/Ofu-Olosega" title="Ofu-Olosega">Ofu Island</a> in <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wake_Island_Lagoon_Paradise_by_Matthew_Piatkowski.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Beach, with palm trees in the foreground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Wake_Island_Lagoon_Paradise_by_Matthew_Piatkowski.jpg/220px-Wake_Island_Lagoon_Paradise_by_Matthew_Piatkowski.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Wake_Island_Lagoon_Paradise_by_Matthew_Piatkowski.jpg/330px-Wake_Island_Lagoon_Paradise_by_Matthew_Piatkowski.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Wake_Island_Lagoon_Paradise_by_Matthew_Piatkowski.jpg/440px-Wake_Island_Lagoon_Paradise_by_Matthew_Piatkowski.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1111" data-file-height="833" /></a><figcaption>Wake Island lagoon</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Red-footed_Booby_(5896652469).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="White bird amid green leaves, looking right at the camera" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Red-footed_Booby_%285896652469%29.jpg/220px-Red-footed_Booby_%285896652469%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Red-footed_Booby_%285896652469%29.jpg/330px-Red-footed_Booby_%285896652469%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Red-footed_Booby_%285896652469%29.jpg/440px-Red-footed_Booby_%285896652469%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Red-footed_booby" title="Red-footed booby">Red-footed booby</a> at <a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Starr_080531-4748_Pritchardia_sp..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="See caption" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Starr_080531-4748_Pritchardia_sp..jpg/250px-Starr_080531-4748_Pritchardia_sp..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Starr_080531-4748_Pritchardia_sp..jpg/330px-Starr_080531-4748_Pritchardia_sp..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Starr_080531-4748_Pritchardia_sp..jpg/500px-Starr_080531-4748_Pritchardia_sp..jpg 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a><figcaption>Navy memorial and <a href="/wiki/Albatross" title="Albatross">albatross</a> monument with <a href="/wiki/Laysan_albatross" title="Laysan albatross">Laysan albatross</a> chicks at <a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a></figcaption></figure> Pursuant to a series of Supreme Court rulings, Congress decides whether a territory is incorporated or unincorporated. The <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">U.S. Constitution</a> applies to each incorporated territory (including its local government and inhabitants) as it applies to the local governments and residents of a state. Incorporated territories are considered to be integral parts of the U.S., rather than possessions.<a href="#cite_note-Princeton-7">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-155">[132]</a> In unincorporated territories, "<a href="/wiki/Fundamental_rights" title="Fundamental rights">fundamental rights</a> apply as a matter of law, but other <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_right" title="Constitutional right">constitutional rights</a> are not available", raising concerns about how citizens in these territories can influence <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">politics in the United States</a>.<a href="#cite_note-156">[133]</a> Selected constitutional provisions apply, depending on congressional acts and judicial rulings according to U.S. constitutional practice, local tradition, and law.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] As a result, these territories are often considered colonies of the United States.<a href="#cite_note-157">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-158">[135]</a> All modern inhabited territories under the control of the federal government can be considered as part of the "United States" for purposes of law as defined in specific legislation.<a href="#cite_note-159">[136]</a> However, the judicial term "unincorporated" was coined to legitimize the late-19th-century territorial acquisitions without citizenship and their administration without constitutional protections temporarily until Congress made other provisions. The case law allowed Congress to impose discriminatory tax regimes with the effect of a protective tariff upon territorial regions which were not domestic states.<a href="#cite_note-160">[137]</a> In 2022, the United States Supreme Court in <a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Vaello_Madero" title="United States v. Vaello Madero">United States v. Vaello Madero</a> held that the territorial clause of the constitution allowed wide congressional latitude in mandating "reasonable" tax and benefit schemes in Puerto Rico and the other territories, which are different from the states, but did not address the incorporated/unincorporated distinction. In a concurrence with the court's overall ruling on the propriety of the differential tax structures, one of the justices opined that it was time to overrule the doctrine of unincorporated territories, as wrongly decided and founded in racism; the dissent agreed with this view.<a href="#cite_note-Romoser-161">[138]</a><a href="#cite_note-162">[139]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Insular_Cases">Insular Cases</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Insular Cases">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Insular_Cases" title="Insular Cases">Insular Cases</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a>, in its 1901–1905 <a href="/wiki/Insular_Cases" title="Insular Cases">Insular Cases</a> opinions, ruled that the Constitution extended ex proprio vigore (i.e., of its own force) to the continental territories. The Court also established the doctrine of territorial incorporation, in which the Constitution applies fully to incorporated territories (such as the then-territories of <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Alaska" title="Territory of Alaska">Alaska</a> and <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Hawaii" title="Territory of Hawaii">Hawaii</a>) and partially in the unincorporated territories of <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, and, at the time, the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> (which is no longer a U.S. territory).<a href="#cite_note-163">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-puertoricoadvancement.org-164">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[142]</a> In the 1901 Supreme Court case <a href="/wiki/Downes_v._Bidwell" title="Downes v. Bidwell">Downes v. Bidwell</a>, the Court said that the U.S. Constitution did not fully apply in unincorporated territories because they were inhabited by "alien races".<a href="#cite_note-166">[143]</a><a href="#cite_note-AtlanticBlackStar-167">[144]</a> The U.S. had no <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_territories_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Unincorporated territories of the United States">unincorporated territories</a> (also known as overseas possessions or insular areas) until 1856. Congress enacted the Guano Islands Act that year, authorizing the president to take possession of unclaimed islands to mine <a href="/wiki/Guano" title="Guano">guano</a>. The U.S. has taken control of (and claimed rights on) many islands and atolls, especially in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, under this law; most have been abandoned. It also has acquired territories since 1856 under other circumstances, such as under the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1898)" title="Treaty of Paris (1898)">Treaty of Paris (1898)</a> which ended the Spanish–American War. The Supreme Court considered the constitutional position of these unincorporated territories in 1922 in <a href="/wiki/Balzac_v._Porto_Rico" title="Balzac v. Porto Rico">Balzac v. People of Porto Rico</a>, and said the following about a U.S. court in Puerto Rico: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">The United States District Court is not a true United States court established under article 3 of the Constitution to administer the judicial power of the United States ... It is created ... by the sovereign congressional faculty, granted under article 4, 3, of that instrument, of making all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. The resemblance of its jurisdiction to that of true United States courts, in offering an opportunity to nonresidents of resorting to a tribunal not subject to local influence, does not change its character as a mere territorial court.<a href="#cite_note-Balzac-168">[145]</a>: 312 </blockquote> In <a href="/wiki/Glidden_Co._v._Zdanok" title="Glidden Co. v. Zdanok">Glidden Company v. Zdanok</a>, the Court cited Balzac and said about courts in unincorporated territories: "Upon like considerations, Article III has been viewed as inapplicable to courts created in unincorporated territories outside the mainland ... and to the consular courts established by concessions from foreign countries".<a href="#cite_note-Zdanok-169">[146]</a>: 547  The judiciary determined that incorporation involves express declaration or an implication strong enough to exclude any other view, raising questions about Puerto Rico's status.<a href="#cite_note-Incorporation1-170">[147]</a> In 1966, Congress made the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Puerto_Rico" title="United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico">United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico</a> an <a href="/wiki/Article_Three_of_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Article Three of the United States Constitution">Article III</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_district_court" title="United States district court">district court</a>. This (the only district court in a U.S. territory) sets Puerto Rico apart judicially from the other unincorporated territories, and U.S. district judge <a href="/wiki/Gustavo_Gelp%C3%AD" title="Gustavo Gelpí">Gustavo Gelpí</a> has expressed the opinion that Puerto Rico is no longer unincorporated: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">The court ... today holds that in the particular case of Puerto Rico, a monumental constitutional evolution based on continued and repeated congressional annexation has taken place. Given the same, the territory has evolved from an unincorporated to an incorporated one. Congress today, thus, must afford Puerto Rico and the 4,000,000 United States citizens residing therein all constitutional guarantees. To hold otherwise, would amount to the court blindfolding itself to continue permitting Congress per secula seculorum to switch on and off the Constitution.<a href="#cite_note-Puerto_Rico_No_Longer_Remains_an_Unincorporated_Territory-171">[148]</a></blockquote> In Balzac, the Court defined "implied":<a href="#cite_note-Balzac-168">[145]</a>: 306  <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Had Congress intended to take the important step of changing the treaty status of Puerto Rico by incorporating it into the Union, it is reasonable to suppose that it would have done so by the plain declaration, and would not have left it to mere inference. Before the question became acute at the close of the Spanish War, the distinction between acquisition and incorporation was not regarded as important, or at least it was not fully understood and had not aroused great controversy. Before that, the purpose of Congress might well be a matter of mere inference from various legislative acts; but in these latter days, incorporation is not to be assumed without express declaration, or an implication so strong as to exclude any other view.</blockquote> On June 5, 2015, the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia">U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia</a> ruled 3–0 in <a href="/wiki/Tuaua_v._United_States" title="Tuaua v. United States">Tuaua v. United States</a> to deny <a href="/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States" title="Birthright citizenship in the United States">birthright citizenship</a> to American Samoans, ruling that the guarantee of such citizenship to citizens in the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to unincorporated U.S. territories. In 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appellate court's decision.<a href="#cite_note-172">[149]</a> In 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld the District Court decision in Segovia v. United States, which ruled that former Illinois residents living in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands did not qualify to cast overseas ballots according to their last registered address on the U.S. mainland.<a href="#cite_note-173">[150]</a> (Residents of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Marianas</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>, however, were still allowed to cast such ballots.) In October 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the 7th Circuit's decision. On June 15, 2021, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Tenth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit</a> ruled 2–1 in <a href="/wiki/Fitisemanu_v._United_States" title="Fitisemanu v. United States">Fitisemanu v. United States</a> to deny birthright citizenship to American Samoans and not to overrule the Insular Cases. The court cited Downes and ruled that "neither constitutional text nor Supreme Court precedent" demands that American Samoans should be given automatic birthright citizenship.<a href="#cite_note-174">[151]</a> The case was denied certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court.<a href="#cite_note-175">[152]</a> On April 21, 2022, in the case United States v. Vaello Madero, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch" title="Neil Gorsuch">Justice Gorsuch</a> urged the Supreme Court to overrule the Insular Cases when possible as they "rest on a rotten foundation" and called the cases "shameful".<a href="#cite_note-176">[153]</a><a href="#cite_note-177">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-178">[155]</a> In analyzing the Insular Cases, Christina Duffy Ponsa (<a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a>, Yale Law School, 1998; former law clerk for Justice <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Breyer" title="Stephen Breyer">Stephen Breyer</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[156]</a>) wrote in The New York Times: "To be an unincorporated territory is to be caught in limbo: although unquestionably subject to American sovereignty, they are considered part of the United States for certain purposes but not others. Whether they are part of the United States for purposes of the Citizenship Clause remains unresolved. "<a href="#cite_note-Ponsa-6">[4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Supreme_Court_decisions_about_current_territories">Supreme Court decisions about current territories</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Supreme Court decisions about current territories">edit</a>]</div> The 2016 Supreme Court case <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_v._Sanchez_Valle" title="Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle">Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle</a> ruled that territories do not have their own sovereignty.<a href="#cite_note-SupremeCourt1-3">[2]</a> That year, the Supreme Court declined to rule on a lower-court ruling in <a href="/wiki/Tuaua_v._United_States" title="Tuaua v. United States">Tuaua v. United States</a> that American Samoans are not U.S. citizens at birth.<a href="#cite_note-Tuana1-35">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-Tuana2-36">[30]</a> The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 in <a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Vaello-Madero" class="mw-redirect" title="United States v. Vaello-Madero">United States v. Vaello-Madero</a> that Congress is not required to extend all benefits to Puerto Ricans, and that the exclusion of Puerto Ricans from the Supplemental Security Income program was constitutional.<a href="#cite_note-180">[157]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Supreme_Court_decisions_about_former_territories">Supreme Court decisions about former territories</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Supreme Court decisions about former territories">edit</a>]</div> In Rassmussen v. U.S., the Supreme Court quoted from Article III of the 1867 treaty for the <a href="/wiki/Purchase_of_Alaska" class="mw-redirect" title="Purchase of Alaska">purchase of Alaska</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">"The inhabitants of the ceded territory ... shall be admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States ..." This declaration, although somewhat changed in phraseology, is the equivalent ... of the formula, employed from the beginning to express the purpose to incorporate acquired territory into the United States, especially in the absence of other provisions showing an intention to the contrary.<a href="#cite_note-Rassmussen-181">[158]</a>: 522 </blockquote> The act of incorporation affects the people of the territory more than the territory itself by extending the <a href="/wiki/Privileges_and_Immunities_Clause" title="Privileges and Immunities Clause">Privileges and Immunities Clause</a> of the Constitution to them, such as its extension to Puerto Rico in 1947; however, Puerto Rico remains unincorporated.<a href="#cite_note-Incorporation1-170">[147]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alaska_Territory">Alaska Territory</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Alaska Territory">edit</a>]</div> Rassmussen arose from a criminal conviction by a six-person jury in Alaska under federal law. The court held that Alaska had been incorporated into the U.S. in <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Purchase" title="Alaska Purchase">the treaty of cession</a> with Russia,<a href="#cite_note-182">[159]</a> and the congressional implication was strong enough to exclude any other view:<a href="#cite_note-Rassmussen-181">[158]</a>: 523  <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">That Congress, shortly following the adoption of the treaty with Russia, clearly contemplated the incorporation of Alaska into the United States as a part thereof, we think plainly results from the act of July 20, 1868, concerning internal revenue taxation ... and the act of July 27, 1868 ... extending the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation over Alaska, and establishing a collection district therein ... And this is fortified by subsequent action of Congress, which it is unnecessary to refer to.</blockquote> Concurring justice <a href="/wiki/Henry_Billings_Brown" title="Henry Billings Brown">Henry Brown</a> agreed:<a href="#cite_note-Rassmussen-181">[158]</a>: 533–34  <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Apparently, acceptance of the territory is insufficient in the opinion of the court in this case, since the result that Alaska is incorporated into the United States is reached, not through the treaty with Russia, or through the establishment of a civil government there, but from the act ... extending the laws of the United States relating to the customs, commerce, and navigation over Alaska, and establishing a collection district there. Certain other acts are cited, notably the judiciary act ... making it the duty of this court to assign ... the several territories of the United States to particular Circuits.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Florida_Territory">Florida Territory</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Florida Territory">edit</a>]</div> In Dorr v. U.S., the court quoted Chief Justice <a href="/wiki/John_Marshall" title="John Marshall">John Marshall</a> from an earlier case:<a href="#cite_note-Dorr-183">[160]</a>: 141–2  <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">The 6th article of the treaty of cession contains the following provision: "The inhabitants of the territories which His Catholic Majesty cedes the United States by this treaty shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution and admitted to the enjoyment of the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States ..." This treaty is the law of the land and admits the inhabitants of Florida to the enjoyment of the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States. It is unnecessary to inquire whether this is not their condition, independent of stipulation. They do not, however, participate in political power; they do not share in the government till Florida shall become a state. In the meantime Florida continues to be a territory of the United States, governed by virtue of that clause in the Constitution which empowers Congress "to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States".</blockquote> In Downes v. Bidwell, the court said: "The same construction was adhered to in the treaty with Spain for the purchase of Florida ... the 6th article of which provided that the inhabitants should 'be incorporated into the Union of the United States, as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution'."<a href="#cite_note-Downes-184">[161]</a>: 256  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Southwest_Territory">Southwest Territory</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Southwest Territory">edit</a>]</div> Justice Brown first mentioned incorporation in Downes:<a href="#cite_note-Downes-184">[161]</a>: 321–22  <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">In view of this it cannot, it seems to me, be doubted that the United States continued to be composed of states and territories, all forming an integral part thereof and incorporated therein, as was the case prior to the adoption of the Constitution. Subsequently, the territory now embraced in the state of Tennessee was ceded to the United States by the state of North Carolina. To ensure the rights of the native inhabitants, it was expressly stipulated that the inhabitants of the ceded territory should enjoy all the rights, privileges, benefits, and advantages set forth in the ordinance of the late Congress for the government of the western territory of the United States.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Louisiana_Territory">Louisiana Territory</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Louisiana Territory">edit</a>]</div> In Downes, the court said: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Owing to a new war between England and France being upon the point of breaking out, there was need for haste in the negotiations, and Mr. Livingston took the responsibility of disobeying his (Mr. Jefferson's) instructions, and, probably owing to the insistence of Bonaparte, consented to the 3d article of the treaty (with France to acquire the territory of Louisiana), which provided that "the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess." [8 Stat. at L. 202.] This evidently committed the government to the ultimate, but not to the immediate, admission of Louisiana as a state ...<a href="#cite_note-Downes-184">[161]</a>: 252 </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_Puerto_Rico">Modern Puerto Rico</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Modern Puerto Rico">edit</a>]</div> Scholars agreed as of 2009 in the Boston College Law Review, "Regardless of how Puerto Rico looked in 1901 when the Insular Cases were decided, or in 1922, today, Puerto Rico seems to be the paradigm of an incorporated territory as modern jurisprudence understands that legal term of art".<a href="#cite_note-185">[162]</a> In November 2008, a district court judge ruled that a sequence of prior Congressional actions had the cumulative effect of changing Puerto Rico's status to incorporated.<a href="#cite_note-186">[163]</a> However, in 2022, the United States Supreme Court <a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Vaello_Madero" title="United States v. Vaello Madero">held that</a> the territorial clause of the US constitution allows wide congressional latitude in mandating "reasonable" tax and benefit schemes in Puerto Rico and the other territories that are different from the states, but the Court did not address the incorporated/unincorporated distinction.<a href="#cite_note-Romoser-161">[138]</a> As a result, the status quo remains, so the US government still defines the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a US unincorporated territory. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Former_unincorporated_territories_and_administered_areas">Former unincorporated territories and administered areas</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Former unincorporated territories and administered areas">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_unincorporated_territories">Former unincorporated territories</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Former unincorporated territories">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swan_Islands,_Honduras" title="Swan Islands, Honduras">Swan Islands</a> (1863–1972): claimed under the Guano Islands Act; sovereignty ceded to Honduras in a 1972 treaty.<a href="#cite_note-187">[164]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Government_of_the_Philippine_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands">military government, 1898-1899</a>; <a href="/wiki/Insular_Government_of_the_Philippine_Islands" title="Insular Government of the Philippine Islands">insular government, 1899–1935</a>; <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_the_Philippines" title="Commonwealth of the Philippines">commonwealth government, 1935–1942 and 1945–1946</a> (islands under <a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_the_Philippines" title="Japanese occupation of the Philippines">Japanese occupation, 1942–1945</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Philippine_Republic" title="Second Philippine Republic">puppet state, 1943–1945</a>); granted independence on July 4, 1946, by the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Manila_(1946)" title="Treaty of Manila (1946)">Treaty of Manila</a>.<a href="#cite_note-188">[165]</a><a href="#cite_note-189">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-190">[167]</a><a href="#cite_note-191">[168]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[169]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Government_of_Porto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Military Government of Porto Rico">military government, 1899–1900</a>; <a href="/wiki/Insular_Government_of_Porto_Rico" title="Insular Government of Porto Rico">insular government, 1900–1952</a>; became a commonwealth on July 25, 1952.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Government_of_Guam" title="Naval Government of Guam">Naval Government of Guam</a> (1899–1950): island under <a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Guam" title="Japanese occupation of Guam">Japanese occupation</a> between 1941 and 1944; territory organized and civil government established by the <a href="/wiki/Guam_Organic_Act_of_1950" title="Guam Organic Act of 1950">Guam Organic Act of 1950</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Hawaii" title="Republic of Hawaii">Republic of Hawaii</a> (1898–1900): became the <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Hawaii" title="Territory of Hawaii">Territory of Hawaii</a> after it was organized and incorporated by the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Organic_Act" title="Hawaiian Organic Act">Hawaiian Organic Act</a> on April 30, 1900.<a href="#cite_note-193">[170]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_U.S.-administered_areas">Former U.S.-administered areas</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Former U.S.-administered areas">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Concession_(Shanghai)" title="American Concession (Shanghai)">American concession of Shanghai</a> (1848–1863): a former enclave in Shanghai, China.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_concession_of_Tianjin" title="American concession of Tianjin">American concession of Tianjin</a> (1860–1901): a former territorial concession in the Chinese city of Tientsin de facto occupied by the United States.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_Government_of_Cuba" title="Military Government of Cuba">Cuba</a> (1899–1902): granted independence on May 20, 1902.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a> (1903–1999): <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" title="Panama Canal Zone">Canal Zone</a> abolished on October 1, 1979, after the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Torrijos%E2%80%93Carter_Treaties" title="Torrijos–Carter Treaties">Torrijos–Carter Treaties</a> in 1977. The U.S. retained a military base on the former Canal Zone until December 31, 1999, when joint U.S.-Panama control of the Panama Canal ended.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corn_Islands" title="Corn Islands">Corn Islands</a> (1914–1971): leased for 99 years under the <a href="/wiki/Bryan%E2%80%93Chamorro_Treaty" title="Bryan–Chamorro Treaty">Bryan–Chamorro Treaty</a>, but returned to <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> after the treaty was annulled in 1970.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canton_and_Enderbury_Islands" title="Canton and Enderbury Islands">Canton and Enderbury Islands</a> (1939–1979): <a href="/wiki/Condominium_(international_law)" title="Condominium (international law)">condominium</a> jointly administered by the United States and the United Kingdom.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanp%C5%8D_Islands" title="Nanpō Islands">Nanpō Islands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minami-Tori-shima" class="mw-redirect" title="Minami-Tori-shima">Marcus Island</a> (1945–1968): occupied after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and returned to Japan by mutual agreement.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands" title="Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands">Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a> (1947–1986): <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_trust_territories" title="United Nations trust territories">U.N. trust territory</a> administered by the U.S.; included the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Federated States of Micronesia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>, which are <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">sovereign states</a> (that have entered into a <a href="/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association" title="Compact of Free Association">Compact of Free Association</a> with the U.S.), along with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands" title="Ryukyu Islands">Ryukyu Islands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dait%C5%8D_Islands" title="Daitō Islands">Daitō Islands</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Civil_Administration_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands" title="United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands">1950–1972</a>): returned to Japan in an agreement.<a href="#cite_note-194">[171]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_U.S._military_occupations">Former U.S. military occupations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Former U.S. military occupations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Banana_Wars" title="Banana Wars">Banana Wars</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_Government_of_Cuba" title="Military Government of Cuba">First Occupation of Cuba</a> (1898–1899): sovereignty over the island relinquished by Spain on April 11, 1899, when the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1898)" title="Treaty of Paris (1898)">Treaty of Paris</a> took effect.</li> <li>Military occupation of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Government_of_the_Philippine_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands">Philippines</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Government_of_Porto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Military Government of Porto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Naval_Government_of_Guam" title="Naval Government of Guam">Guam</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a> (1898–1899): territories annexed on April 11, 1899, when the Treaty of Paris took effect.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_Cuba" title="Provisional Government of Cuba">Second Occupation of Cuba</a> (1906–1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Nicaragua" title="United States occupation of Nicaragua">United States occupation of Nicaragua</a> (1912–1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_Government_of_Veracruz" title="Military Government of Veracruz">United States occupation of Veracruz</a> (1914)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti" title="United States occupation of Haiti">United States occupation of Haiti</a> (1915–1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_Government_of_Santo_Domingo" title="Military Government of Santo Domingo">United States occupation of the Dominican Republic</a> (1916–1924)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sugar_Intervention" title="Sugar Intervention">Sugar Intervention</a> on Cuba (1917–1922)</li> <li>Participation in the <a href="/wiki/332nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="332nd Infantry Regiment (United States)">Occupation of Austria-Hungary</a> (1918–1919)</li> <li>Participation in the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Rhineland" title="Occupation of the Rhineland">Occupation of the Rhineland</a> (1918–1921)</li> <li>Participation in the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of Constantinople">Occupation of Constantinople</a> (1918–1923)</li> <li>Occupation of <a href="/wiki/Greenland_in_World_War_II" title="Greenland in World War II">Greenland in World War II</a> (1941–1945)<a href="#cite_note-books.google.com-195">[172]</a></li> <li>Occupation of <a href="/wiki/Iceland_in_World_War_II" title="Iceland in World War II">Iceland in World War II</a> (1941–1946):<a href="#cite_note-books.google.com-195">[172]</a> military base retained until 2006.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allied_Military_Government_for_Occupied_Territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories">Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories</a>, in Allied-controlled sections of Italy from the July 1943 <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Sicily" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Sicily">invasion of Sicily</a> until the September armistice with Italy. AMGOT continued in newly liberated areas of Italy until the end of the war, and also existed in France.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>Occupation of <a href="/wiki/Clipperton_Island#American_occupation_(1944–1945)" title="Clipperton Island">Clipperton Island in World War II</a> (1944–1945): occupied territory, returned to France on October 23, 1945.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Military_Government_in_Korea" title="United States Army Military Government in Korea">United States Army Military Government in Korea</a>: occupation south of the <a href="/wiki/38th_parallel_north" title="38th parallel north">38th parallel</a> from 1945 to 1948.</li> <li>American zones of <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Allied-occupied Germany</a> (1945–1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan" title="Occupation of Japan">Occupation of Japan</a> (1945–1952) after World War II</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Government_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands" title="United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands">United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands</a> (1945–1950)</li> <li>American occupation zones in <a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria" title="Allied-occupied Austria">Allied-occupied Austria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a> (1945–1955)</li> <li>American occupation zone in <a href="/wiki/West_Berlin" title="West Berlin">West Berlin</a> (1945–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Territory_of_Trieste" title="Free Territory of Trieste">Free Territory of Trieste</a> (1947–1954): the U.S. co-administered a portion of the territory (between the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy" title="Kingdom of Italy">Kingdom of Italy</a> and the former <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Kingdom of Yugoslavia</a>) with the United Kingdom.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Civil_War#U.S._intervention" title="Dominican Civil War">Operation Power Pack</a>, Dominican Republic (1965–66)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada" title="United States invasion of Grenada">Grenada invasion and occupation</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama" title="United States invasion of Panama">Panama invasion and occupation</a> (1989–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Uphold_Democracy" title="Operation Uphold Democracy">Operation Uphold Democracy</a>, Haiti (1994–1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coalition_Provisional_Authority" title="Coalition Provisional Authority">Coalition Provisional Authority</a>, Iraq (2003–2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Zone" title="Green Zone">Green Zone</a>, Iraq (March 20, 2003 – December 31, 2008)<a href="#cite_note-196">[173]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Flora_and_fauna">Flora and fauna</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Flora and fauna">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_the_United_States#Territories" title="Fauna of the United States">Fauna of the United States § Territories</a></div> The territories of the United States have many plant and animal species found nowhere else in the United States. All U.S. territories have tropical climates and ecosystems.<a href="#cite_note-USDA_Forests-197">[174]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Forests">Forests</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Forests">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:View_direction_Dos_Picachos_from_El_Pico_in_El_Yunque_National_Forest.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/View_direction_Dos_Picachos_from_El_Pico_in_El_Yunque_National_Forest.JPG/215px-View_direction_Dos_Picachos_from_El_Pico_in_El_Yunque_National_Forest.JPG" decoding="async" width="215" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/View_direction_Dos_Picachos_from_El_Pico_in_El_Yunque_National_Forest.JPG/323px-View_direction_Dos_Picachos_from_El_Pico_in_El_Yunque_National_Forest.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/View_direction_Dos_Picachos_from_El_Pico_in_El_Yunque_National_Forest.JPG/430px-View_direction_Dos_Picachos_from_El_Pico_in_El_Yunque_National_Forest.JPG 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>View of <a href="/wiki/El_Yunque_National_Forest" title="El Yunque National Forest">El Yunque National Forest</a> in Puerto Rico</figcaption></figure> The USDA says the following about the U.S. territories (plus Hawaii): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">[The U.S. territories, plus Hawaii] include virtually all the Nation's tropical forests as well as other forest types including subtropical, coastal, subalpine, dry limestone, and coastal mangrove forests. Although distant from America's geographic center and from each other—and with distinctive flora and fauna, land use history, and individual forest issues—these rich and diverse ecosystems share a common bond of change and challenge.<a href="#cite_note-USDA_Forests-197">[174]</a></blockquote> Forests in the U.S. territories are vulnerable to <a href="/wiki/Invasive_species" title="Invasive species">invasive species</a> and new housing developments.<a href="#cite_note-USDA_Forests-197">[174]</a> <a href="/wiki/El_Yunque_National_Forest" title="El Yunque National Forest">El Yunque National Forest</a> in Puerto Rico is the only <a href="/wiki/Tropical_rain_forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropical rain forest">tropical rain forest</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Forest" class="mw-redirect" title="United States National Forest">United States National Forest</a> system.<a href="#cite_note-198">[175]</a> American Samoa has 80.84% forest cover and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> has 80.37% forest cover—these are among the <a href="/wiki/Forest_cover_by_state_and_territory_in_the_United_States" title="Forest cover by state and territory in the United States">highest forest cover percentages</a> in the United States (only <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> are higher).<a href="#cite_note-199">[176]</a><a href="#cite_note-200">[note 18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birds">Birds</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Birds">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_American_Samoa" title="List of birds of American Samoa">List of birds of American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Guam" title="List of birds of Guam">List of birds of Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="List of birds of the Northern Mariana Islands">List of birds of the Northern Mariana Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of birds of Puerto Rico">List of birds of Puerto Rico</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_the_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="List of birds of the U.S. Virgin Islands">List of birds of the U.S. Virgin Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_the_U.S._Minor_Outlying_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of birds of the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands">List of birds of the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_the_United_States" title="List of birds of the United States">List of birds of the United States</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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decoding="async" width="177" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Manycoloured_fruitdove_male_bobbys.JPG/266px-Manycoloured_fruitdove_male_bobbys.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Manycoloured_fruitdove_male_bobbys.JPG/354px-Manycoloured_fruitdove_male_bobbys.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1012" data-file-height="946" /></a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:199px;max-width:199px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:165px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Golden_White-Eye_palm.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Golden_White-Eye_palm.jpg/197px-Golden_White-Eye_palm.jpg" decoding="async" width="197" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Golden_White-Eye_palm.jpg/296px-Golden_White-Eye_palm.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Golden_White-Eye_palm.jpg/394px-Golden_White-Eye_palm.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2088" data-file-height="1748" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Left: <a href="/wiki/Many-colored_fruit_dove" title="Many-colored fruit dove">Many-colored fruit dove</a> (found in American Samoa); Right: <a href="/wiki/Golden_white-eye" title="Golden white-eye">Golden white-eye</a> (found only in the Northern Mariana Islands)</div></div></div></div> U.S. territories have many bird species that are <a href="/wiki/Endemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Endemic">endemic</a> (not found in any other location).<a href="#cite_note-USDA_Forests-197">[174]</a> Introduction of the invasive <a href="/wiki/Brown_tree_snake" title="Brown tree snake">brown tree snake</a> has harmed Guam's native bird population—nine of twelve endemic species have become extinct, and the territorial bird (the <a href="/wiki/Guam_rail" title="Guam rail">Guam rail</a>) is extinct in the wild.<a href="#cite_note-USDA_Forests-197">[174]</a> Puerto Rico has several endemic bird species, such as the critically endangered <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_parrot" class="mw-redirect" title="Puerto Rican parrot">Puerto Rican parrot</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_flycatcher" title="Puerto Rican flycatcher">Puerto Rican flycatcher</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_spindalis" title="Puerto Rican spindalis">Puerto Rican spindalis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-201">[177]</a> The Northern Mariana Islands has the <a href="/wiki/Mariana_swiftlet" title="Mariana swiftlet">Mariana swiftlet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mariana_crow" title="Mariana crow">Mariana crow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tinian_monarch" title="Tinian monarch">Tinian monarch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Golden_white-eye" title="Golden white-eye">golden white-eye</a> (all endemic).<a href="#cite_note-202">[178]</a> Birds found in <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a> include the <a href="/wiki/Many-colored_fruit_dove" title="Many-colored fruit dove">many-colored fruit dove</a>,<a href="#cite_note-203">[179]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Blue-crowned_lorikeet" title="Blue-crowned lorikeet">blue-crowned lorikeet</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Samoan_starling" title="Samoan starling">Samoan starling</a>.<a href="#cite_note-204">[180]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island_rail" title="Wake Island rail">Wake Island rail</a> (now extinct) was endemic to <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a>,<a href="#cite_note-205">[181]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Laysan_duck" title="Laysan duck">Laysan duck</a> is endemic to <a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Hawaiian_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwest Hawaiian Islands">Northwest Hawaiian Islands</a>.<a href="#cite_note-206">[182]</a> <a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a> has the second-largest red-footed booby colony in the world,<a href="#cite_note-207">[183]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a> has the largest breeding colony of <a href="/wiki/Laysan_albatross" title="Laysan albatross">Laysan albatross</a> in the world.<a href="#cite_note-208">[184]</a><a href="#cite_note-209">[185]</a> The <a href="/wiki/American_Birding_Association" title="American Birding Association">American Birding Association</a> currently excludes the U.S. territories from their "ABA Area" checklist.<a href="#cite_note-210">[186]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_animals">Other animals</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Other animals">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_American_Samoa" title="List of mammals of American Samoa">List of mammals of American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Guam" title="List of mammals of Guam">List of mammals of Guam</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="List of mammals of the Northern Mariana Islands">List of mammals of the Northern Mariana Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of mammals of Puerto Rico">List of mammals of Puerto Rico</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_the_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="List of mammals of the U.S. Virgin Islands">List of mammals of the U.S. Virgin Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_the_United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="List of mammals of the United States Minor Outlying Islands">List of mammals of the United States Minor Outlying Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_reptiles_of_American_Samoa" title="List of reptiles of American Samoa">List of reptiles of American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_reptiles_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of reptiles of Puerto Rico">List of reptiles of Puerto Rico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Fauna of Puerto Rico">Fauna of Puerto Rico</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_the_U.S._Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Fauna of the U.S. Virgin Islands">Fauna of the U.S. Virgin Islands</a></div> American Samoa has several reptile species, such as the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_boa" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific boa">Pacific boa</a> (on the island of <a href="/wiki/Ta%E2%80%98%C5%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Ta‘ū">Ta‘ū</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Pacific_slender-toed_gecko" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific slender-toed gecko">Pacific slender-toed gecko</a>.<a href="#cite_note-211">[187]</a> American Samoa has only a few mammal species, such as the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_sheath-tailed_bat" title="Pacific sheath-tailed bat">Pacific (Polynesian) sheath-tailed bat</a>, as well as oceanic mammals such as the <a href="/wiki/Humpback_whale" title="Humpback whale">Humpback whale</a>.<a href="#cite_note-212">[188]</a><a href="#cite_note-213">[189]</a> <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> also have a small number of mammals, such as the <a href="/wiki/Mariana_fruit_bat" title="Mariana fruit bat">Mariana fruit bat</a>;<a href="#cite_note-214">[190]</a> oceanic mammals include <a href="/wiki/Fraser%27s_dolphin" title="Fraser's dolphin">Fraser's dolphin</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sperm_whale" title="Sperm whale">Sperm whale</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Fauna of Puerto Rico">fauna of Puerto Rico</a> includes the <a href="/wiki/Common_coqu%C3%AD" title="Common coquí">common coquí</a> (frog),<a href="#cite_note-215">[191]</a> while the <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_the_U.S._Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Fauna of the U.S. Virgin Islands">fauna of the U.S. Virgin Islands</a> includes species found in <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Islands_National_Park" title="Virgin Islands National Park">Virgin Islands National Park</a> (including 302 species of fish).<a href="#cite_note-216">[192]</a> American Samoa has a location called <a href="/wiki/Turtle_and_Shark" title="Turtle and Shark">Turtle and Shark</a> which is important in <a href="/wiki/Samoan_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Samoan culture">Samoan culture</a> and mythology.<a href="#cite_note-217">[193]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protected_areas">Protected areas</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Protected areas">edit</a>]</div> There are two <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States" title="List of national parks of the United States">National Parks</a> in the U.S. territories: the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_of_American_Samoa" title="National Park of American Samoa">National Park of American Samoa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Islands_National_Park" title="Virgin Islands National Park">Virgin Islands National Park</a>.<a href="#cite_note-218">[194]</a><a href="#cite_note-219">[195]</a> The <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> also manages <a href="/wiki/War_in_the_Pacific_National_Historical_Park" title="War in the Pacific National Historical Park">War in the Pacific National Historical Park</a> on Guam.<a href="#cite_note-220">[196]</a> There are also <a href="/wiki/National_Natural_Landmark" title="National Natural Landmark">National Natural Landmarks</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Wildlife_Refuges" class="mw-redirect" title="National Wildlife Refuges">National Wildlife Refuges</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Guam_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Guam National Wildlife Refuge">Guam National Wildlife Refuge</a>), <a href="/wiki/El_Yunque_National_Forest" title="El Yunque National Forest">El Yunque National Forest</a> in <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Heritage_Marine_National_Monument" title="Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument">Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument</a> (which includes the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Minor_Outlying_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Minor Outlying Islands">U.S. Minor Outlying Islands</a>). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_image">Public image</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Public image">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USA_Territories_National_Parks_Map_by_Jacqueline_Boss.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/USA_Territories_National_Parks_Map_by_Jacqueline_Boss.jpg/250px-USA_Territories_National_Parks_Map_by_Jacqueline_Boss.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/USA_Territories_National_Parks_Map_by_Jacqueline_Boss.jpg/500px-USA_Territories_National_Parks_Map_by_Jacqueline_Boss.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="4160" data-file-height="3528" /></a><figcaption>Hand-drawn map, 2018</figcaption></figure> In The Not-Quite States of America, his book about the U.S. territories, essayist Doug Mack said: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">It seemed that right around the turn of the twentieth century, the territories were part of the national mythology and the everyday conversation ... A century or so ago, Americans didn't just know about the territories but cared about them, argued about them. But what changed? How and why did they disappear from the national conversation?<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMack2017xxii–xxiii-221">[197]</a> The territories have made us who we are. They represent the USA's place in the world. They've been a reflection of our national mood in nearly every period of American history.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMack2017274-222">[198]</a> </blockquote> Representative <a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Murphy" title="Stephanie Murphy">Stephanie Murphy</a> of Florida said about a 2018 bill to make Puerto Rico the 51st state, "The hard truth is that Puerto Rico's lack of political power allows Washington to treat Puerto Rico like an afterthought."<a href="#cite_note-223">[199]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Governor of Puerto Rico">Governor of Puerto Rico</a> <a href="/wiki/Ricardo_Rossell%C3%B3" title="Ricardo Rosselló">Ricardo Rosselló</a>, "Because we don't have political power, because we don't have representatives, [no] senators, no vote for president, we are treated as an afterthought."<a href="#cite_note-224">[200]</a> Rosselló called Puerto Rico the "oldest, most populous colony in the world". Rosselló and others have referred to the U.S. territories as American "colonies".<a href="#cite_note-RosselloPR-225">[201]</a><a href="#cite_note-Immerwahr-226">[202]</a><a href="#cite_note-227">[203]</a><a href="#cite_note-WashPost2017-228">[204]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ponsa-6">[4]</a> David Vine of The Washington Post said the following: "The people of [the U.S. territories] are all too accustomed to being forgotten except in times of crisis. But being forgotten is not the worst of their problems. They are trapped in a state of third-class citizenship, unable to access full democratic rights because politicians have long favored the military's freedom of operation over protecting the freedoms of certain U.S. citizens."<a href="#cite_note-WashPost2017-228">[204]</a> In his article "How the U.S. Has Hidden Its Empire", Daniel Immerwahr of The Guardian writes, "The confusion and shoulder-shrugging indifference that mainlanders displayed [toward territories] at the time of Pearl Harbor hasn't changed much at all. [...] [Maps of the contiguous U.S.] give [mainlanders] a truncated view of their own history, one that excludes part of their country."<a href="#cite_note-Immerwahr-226">[202]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 U.S. Census</a> excludes non-citizen U.S. nationals in American Samoa—in response to this, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Joseph_Stern" title="Mark Joseph Stern">Mark Joseph Stern</a> of Slate said, "The Census Bureau's total exclusion of American Samoans provides a pertinent reminder that, until the courts step in, the federal government will continue to treat these Americans with startling indifference."<a href="#cite_note-229">[205]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Galleries">Galleries</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Galleries">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Members_of_the_House_of_Representatives_(non-voting)">Members of the House of Representatives (non-voting)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Members of the House of Representatives (non-voting)">edit</a>]</div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 135.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 133.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Aumua_Amata_Radewagen_congressional_photo.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Amata Coleman Radewagen (R), (American Samoa)"><img alt="Official photo, with American flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Aumua_Amata_Radewagen_congressional_photo.jpg/250px-Aumua_Amata_Radewagen_congressional_photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Aumua_Amata_Radewagen_congressional_photo.jpg/330px-Aumua_Amata_Radewagen_congressional_photo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Aumua_Amata_Radewagen_congressional_photo.jpg/500px-Aumua_Amata_Radewagen_congressional_photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="639" data-file-height="960" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Amata_Coleman_Radewagen" title="Amata Coleman Radewagen">Amata Coleman Radewagen</a> (R), (American Samoa)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Moylan_official_photo_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="James Moylan (R), (Guam)"><img alt="Official photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/James_Moylan_official_photo_%281%29.jpg/250px-James_Moylan_official_photo_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/James_Moylan_official_photo_%281%29.jpg/500px-James_Moylan_official_photo_%281%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="819" data-file-height="1024" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/James_Moylan" title="James Moylan">James Moylan</a> (R), (Guam)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Kimberlyn_King-Hinds_official_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kimberlyn King-Hinds (R), (Northern Mariana Islands)"><img alt="Official photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Kimberlyn_King-Hinds_official_portrait.jpg/240px-Kimberlyn_King-Hinds_official_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Kimberlyn_King-Hinds_official_portrait.jpg/360px-Kimberlyn_King-Hinds_official_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Kimberlyn_King-Hinds_official_portrait.jpg/480px-Kimberlyn_King-Hinds_official_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1500" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Kimberlyn_King-Hinds" title="Kimberlyn King-Hinds">Kimberlyn King-Hinds</a> (R), (Northern Mariana Islands)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera_Pablo_119th_Congress.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pablo Hernández Rivera (D), (Puerto Rico)"><img alt="Official photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera_Pablo_119th_Congress.jpg/240px-Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera_Pablo_119th_Congress.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera_Pablo_119th_Congress.jpg/360px-Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera_Pablo_119th_Congress.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera_Pablo_119th_Congress.jpg/480px-Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera_Pablo_119th_Congress.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1250" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Rivera" title="Pablo Hernández Rivera">Pablo Hernández Rivera</a> (D), (Puerto Rico)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Rep._Stacey_E._Plaskett_(VI).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stacey Plaskett (D), (U.S. Virgin Islands)"><img alt="Official photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Rep._Stacey_E._Plaskett_%28VI%29.jpg/250px-Rep._Stacey_E._Plaskett_%28VI%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Rep._Stacey_E._Plaskett_%28VI%29.jpg/500px-Rep._Stacey_E._Plaskett_%28VI%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="2426" data-file-height="3032" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Stacey_Plaskett" title="Stacey Plaskett">Stacey Plaskett</a> (D), (U.S. Virgin Islands)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Territorial_governors">Territorial governors</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Territorial governors">edit</a>]</div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 151.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 149.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Nikolao_Pula_with_CHCC_Staff_2022-04-09_Cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pula Nikolao Pula (R), (American Samoa)"><img alt="Pula Nikolao Pula" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Nikolao_Pula_with_CHCC_Staff_2022-04-09_Cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="241" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Pula_Nikolao_Pula" title="Pula Nikolao Pula">Pula Nikolao Pula</a> (R), (<a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_American_Samoa" title="List of governors of American Samoa">American Samoa</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 164.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 162.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Lou_Leon_Guerrero_in_2018.jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lou Leon Guerrero (D), (Guam)"><img alt="Lou Leon Guerrero" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Lou_Leon_Guerrero_in_2018.jpeg/250px-Lou_Leon_Guerrero_in_2018.jpeg" decoding="async" width="163" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Lou_Leon_Guerrero_in_2018.jpeg/500px-Lou_Leon_Guerrero_in_2018.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="885" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Lou_Leon_Guerrero" title="Lou Leon Guerrero">Lou Leon Guerrero</a> (D), (<a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Guam" title="List of governors of Guam">Guam</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 168.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 166.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Arnold_Palacios.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arnold Palacios (I), (Northern Mariana Islands)"><img alt="Arnold Palacios" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Arnold_Palacios.jpg/250px-Arnold_Palacios.jpg" decoding="async" width="167" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Arnold_Palacios.jpg/375px-Arnold_Palacios.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Arnold_Palacios.jpg/500px-Arnold_Palacios.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="1728" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Palacios" title="Arnold Palacios">Arnold Palacios</a> (I), (<a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="List of governors of the Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Resident_Commissioner_Jenniffer_Gonzalez_(4x5_cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Jenniffer González-Colón (PNP-R), (Puerto Rico)"><img alt="Jenniffer González-Colón" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Official_portrait_of_Resident_Commissioner_Jenniffer_Gonzalez_%284x5_cropped%29.jpg/240px-Official_portrait_of_Resident_Commissioner_Jenniffer_Gonzalez_%284x5_cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Official_portrait_of_Resident_Commissioner_Jenniffer_Gonzalez_%284x5_cropped%29.jpg/360px-Official_portrait_of_Resident_Commissioner_Jenniffer_Gonzalez_%284x5_cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Official_portrait_of_Resident_Commissioner_Jenniffer_Gonzalez_%284x5_cropped%29.jpg/481px-Official_portrait_of_Resident_Commissioner_Jenniffer_Gonzalez_%284x5_cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2679" data-file-height="3344" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Jenniffer_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Col%C3%B3n" title="Jenniffer González-Colón">Jenniffer González-Colón</a> (<a href="/wiki/New_Progressive_Party_(Puerto_Rico)" title="New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)">PNP</a>-R), (<a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of governors of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Governor_Albert_Bryan_Jr..jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Albert Bryan Jr. (D), (U.S. Virgin Islands)"><img alt="Albert Bryan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Governor_Albert_Bryan_Jr..jpg/240px-Governor_Albert_Bryan_Jr..jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Governor_Albert_Bryan_Jr..jpg/360px-Governor_Albert_Bryan_Jr..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Governor_Albert_Bryan_Jr..jpg/480px-Governor_Albert_Bryan_Jr..jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="1000" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Albert_Bryan_Jr." title="Albert Bryan Jr.">Albert Bryan Jr.</a> (D), (<a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="List of governors of the United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a>)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Satellite_images">Satellite images</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Satellite images">edit</a>]</div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 283.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:TutuilaFromSpace.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tutuila and Aunu'u (American Samoa)"><img alt="Tutuila and Aunu'u (American Samoa)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/TutuilaFromSpace.jpg/500px-TutuilaFromSpace.jpg" decoding="async" width="284" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/TutuilaFromSpace.jpg/960px-TutuilaFromSpace.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1200" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Tutuila" title="Tutuila">Tutuila</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aunu%CA%BBu" class="mw-redirect" title="Aunuʻu">Aunu'u</a> (<a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 134px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 132px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Guam_ali_2011364_lrg.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Guam"><img alt="Guam" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Guam_ali_2011364_lrg.jpg/198px-Guam_ali_2011364_lrg.jpg" decoding="async" width="132" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Guam_ali_2011364_lrg.jpg/297px-Guam_ali_2011364_lrg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Guam_ali_2011364_lrg.jpg/396px-Guam_ali_2011364_lrg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3994" data-file-height="5148" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 123.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 121.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Saipan_from_ISS_2.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands)"><img alt="Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Saipan_from_ISS_2.png/250px-Saipan_from_ISS_2.png" decoding="async" width="122" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Saipan_from_ISS_2.png/330px-Saipan_from_ISS_2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Saipan_from_ISS_2.png/500px-Saipan_from_ISS_2.png 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="3500" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Saipan" class="mw-redirect" title="Saipan">Saipan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 172px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:STS034-76-88.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Puerto Rico"><img alt="Puerto Rico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/STS034-76-88.jpg/255px-STS034-76-88.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/STS034-76-88.jpg/383px-STS034-76-88.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/STS034-76-88.jpg/510px-STS034-76-88.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5248" data-file-height="5248" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 99.333333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 97.333333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Virgin_Islands.png" class="mw-file-description" title="U.S. Virgin Islands"><img alt="U.S. Virgin Islands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/US_Virgin_Islands.png/146px-US_Virgin_Islands.png" decoding="async" width="98" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/US_Virgin_Islands.png/219px-US_Virgin_Islands.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/US_Virgin_Islands.png/291px-US_Virgin_Islands.png 2x" data-file-width="505" data-file-height="883" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a></div> </li> </ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 242px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 240px;"><a href="/wiki/File:BakerIsland_ISS010.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Baker Island"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/BakerIsland_ISS010.jpg/500px-BakerIsland_ISS010.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/BakerIsland_ISS010.jpg/960px-BakerIsland_ISS010.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="708" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Baker Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 172px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Howland_island_nasa.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Howland Island"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Howland_island_nasa.jpg/255px-Howland_island_nasa.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Howland_island_nasa.jpg/383px-Howland_island_nasa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Howland_island_nasa.jpg/510px-Howland_island_nasa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="540" data-file-height="540" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Howland Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 228.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 226.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:JarvisISS008-E-14052.PNG" class="mw-file-description" title="Jarvis Island"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/JarvisISS008-E-14052.PNG/500px-JarvisISS008-E-14052.PNG" decoding="async" width="227" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/JarvisISS008-E-14052.PNG/960px-JarvisISS008-E-14052.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Jarvis Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 171.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 169.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Johnston_Atoll.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Johnston Atoll"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Johnston_Atoll.png/254px-Johnston_Atoll.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Johnston_Atoll.png/381px-Johnston_Atoll.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Johnston_Atoll.png/508px-Johnston_Atoll.png 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="634" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Johnston Atoll</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 278.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 276.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Kingman_Reef_-_2014-02-18_-_Landsat_8_-_15m.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Kingman Reef"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Kingman_Reef_-_2014-02-18_-_Landsat_8_-_15m.png/500px-Kingman_Reef_-_2014-02-18_-_Landsat_8_-_15m.png" decoding="async" width="277" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Kingman_Reef_-_2014-02-18_-_Landsat_8_-_15m.png/960px-Kingman_Reef_-_2014-02-18_-_Landsat_8_-_15m.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1395" data-file-height="858" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Kingman Reef</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 204px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Midway_Atoll_aerial_photo_2008.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Midway Atoll"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Midway_Atoll_aerial_photo_2008.JPG/330px-Midway_Atoll_aerial_photo_2008.JPG" decoding="async" width="202" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Midway_Atoll_aerial_photo_2008.JPG/500px-Midway_Atoll_aerial_photo_2008.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Midway_Atoll_aerial_photo_2008.JPG/606px-Midway_Atoll_aerial_photo_2008.JPG 2x" data-file-width="730" data-file-height="614" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Midway Atoll</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 253.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 251.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Navassa_ISS014.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Navassa Island"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Navassa_ISS014.jpg/377px-Navassa_ISS014.jpg" decoding="async" width="252" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Navassa_ISS014.jpg/566px-Navassa_ISS014.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Navassa_ISS014.jpg/754px-Navassa_ISS014.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="677" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Navassa Island</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 288.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 286.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Palmyra_Atoll_2010-03-18,_EO-1_ALI_bands_5-4-3-1,_15m_resolution.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Palmyra Atoll"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Palmyra_Atoll_2010-03-18%2C_EO-1_ALI_bands_5-4-3-1%2C_15m_resolution.png/430px-Palmyra_Atoll_2010-03-18%2C_EO-1_ALI_bands_5-4-3-1%2C_15m_resolution.png" decoding="async" width="287" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Palmyra_Atoll_2010-03-18%2C_EO-1_ALI_bands_5-4-3-1%2C_15m_resolution.png/645px-Palmyra_Atoll_2010-03-18%2C_EO-1_ALI_bands_5-4-3-1%2C_15m_resolution.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Palmyra_Atoll_2010-03-18%2C_EO-1_ALI_bands_5-4-3-1%2C_15m_resolution.png/859px-Palmyra_Atoll_2010-03-18%2C_EO-1_ALI_bands_5-4-3-1%2C_15m_resolution.png 2x" data-file-width="1974" data-file-height="1172" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Palmyra Atoll</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 171.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 169.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Wake_Island.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Wake Island"><img alt="Satellite photo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Wake_Island.png/254px-Wake_Island.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Wake_Island.png/381px-Wake_Island.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Wake_Island.png/508px-Wake_Island.png 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="634" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Wake Island</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maps">Maps</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Maps">edit</a>]</div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 160.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 158.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Aq-map.png" class="mw-file-description" title="American Samoa"><img alt="American Samoa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Aq-map.png/250px-Aq-map.png" decoding="async" width="159" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Aq-map.png 1.5x" data-file-width="331" data-file-height="355" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">American Samoa</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 172px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Guam_-_Location_Map_(2013)_-_GUM_-_UNOCHA.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Guam"><img alt="Guam" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Guam_-_Location_Map_%282013%29_-_GUM_-_UNOCHA.svg/255px-Guam_-_Location_Map_%282013%29_-_GUM_-_UNOCHA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Guam_-_Location_Map_%282013%29_-_GUM_-_UNOCHA.svg/383px-Guam_-_Location_Map_%282013%29_-_GUM_-_UNOCHA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Guam_-_Location_Map_%282013%29_-_GUM_-_UNOCHA.svg/510px-Guam_-_Location_Map_%282013%29_-_GUM_-_UNOCHA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="250" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Guam</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 160px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 158px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Mariana_Islands_map.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Northern Mariana Islands"><img alt="Northern Mariana Islands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Northern_Mariana_Islands_map.gif/237px-Northern_Mariana_Islands_map.gif" decoding="async" width="158" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Northern_Mariana_Islands_map.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="345" data-file-height="371" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Northern Mariana Islands</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 336.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 334.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Rico_(1).png" class="mw-file-description" title="Puerto Rico"><img alt="Puerto Rico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Rico_%281%29.png/502px-Rico_%281%29.png" decoding="async" width="335" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Rico_%281%29.png 1.5x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="321" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Puerto Rico</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 160.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 158.66666666667px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Virgin_Islands-CIA_WFB_Map.png" class="mw-file-description" title="U.S. Virgin Islands"><img alt="U.S. Virgin Islands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Virgin_Islands-CIA_WFB_Map.png/238px-Virgin_Islands-CIA_WFB_Map.png" decoding="async" width="159" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Virgin_Islands-CIA_WFB_Map.png 1.5x" data-file-width="329" data-file-height="353" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">U.S. Virgin Islands</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 172px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:NOAA_Map_of_the_US_EEZ.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="U.S. exclusive economic zone"><img alt="U.S. exclusive economic zone" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/NOAA_Map_of_the_US_EEZ.svg/255px-NOAA_Map_of_the_US_EEZ.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/NOAA_Map_of_the_US_EEZ.svg/382px-NOAA_Map_of_the_US_EEZ.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/NOAA_Map_of_the_US_EEZ.svg/509px-NOAA_Map_of_the_US_EEZ.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="613" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone_of_the_United_States" title="Exclusive economic zone of the United States">U.S. exclusive economic zone</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style 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href="/wiki/Index_of_United_States_Virgin_Islands-related_articles" class="mw-redirect" title="Index of United States Virgin Islands-related articles">VI</a></li> <li>Congressional districts: <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa%27s_at-large_congressional_district" title="American Samoa's at-large congressional district">AS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam%27s_at-large_congressional_district" title="Guam's at-large congressional district">GU</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands%27s_at-large_congressional_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Mariana Islands's at-large congressional district">MP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico%27s_at-large_congressional_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Puerto Rico's at-large congressional district">PR</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands%27s_at-large_congressional_district" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Virgin Islands's at-large congressional district">VI</a></li> <li>Geography: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_American_Samoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Geography of American Samoa">AS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Guam" title="Geography of Guam">GU</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Geography of the Northern Mariana Islands">MP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Geography of Puerto Rico">PR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Geography of the United States Virgin Islands">VI</a></li> <li>Geology: <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_American_Samoa" title="Geology of American Samoa">AS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Guam" title="Geology of Guam">GU</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Geology of the Northern Mariana Islands">MP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Geology of Puerto Rico">PR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Geology of the United States Virgin Islands">VI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_museums_in_the_unincorporated_territories_of_the_United_States" title="List of museums in the unincorporated territories of the United States">List of museums in the unincorporated territories of the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_National_Historic_Landmarks_in_United_States_commonwealths_and_territories,_associated_states,_and_foreign_states" title="List of United States National Historic Landmarks in United States commonwealths and territories, associated states, and foreign states">List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. territories</a></li> <li>Outlines: <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_American_Samoa" title="Outline of American Samoa">AS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Guam" title="Outline of Guam">GU</a>, <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Outline of the Northern Mariana Islands">MP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Outline of Puerto Rico">PR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Outline of the United States Virgin Islands">VI</a></li> <li>Per capita income: <a href="/wiki/List_of_American_Samoa_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of American Samoa locations by per capita income">AS</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Guam_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of Guam locations by per capita income">GU</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Northern_Mariana_Islands_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of Northern Mariana Islands locations by per capita income">MP</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Puerto_Rico_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of Puerto Rico locations by per capita income">PR</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._Virgin_Islands_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of U.S. Virgin Islands locations by per capita income">VI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States_on_stamps" title="Territories of the United States on stamps">Territories of the United States on stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings" title="United States National Register of Historic Places listings">U.S. National Historic Places</a>: <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_American_Samoa" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in American Samoa">AS</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Guam" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Guam">GU</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in the Northern Mariana Islands">MP</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Puerto_Rico" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico">PR</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in the United States Virgin Islands">VI</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_the_United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in the United States Minor Outlying Islands">UM</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Related_topics">Related topics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Related topics">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Enabling_act#United_States" title="Enabling act">Enabling act (United States)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base" title="Guantanamo Bay Naval Base">Guantanamo Bay Naval Base</a>, a military base of the United States Navy in Cuba under a perpetual lease</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_regions_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic regions of the United States">Historic regions of the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insular_area" title="Insular area">Insular area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_the_United_States" title="List of extreme points of the United States">List of extreme points of the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States" title="List of states and territories of the United States">List of states and territories of the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organic_act" title="Organic act">Organic act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_regions_of_the_United_States#Former_organized_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic regions of the United States">Organized incorporated territories of the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States" title="Territorial evolution of the United States">Territorial evolution of the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._territorial_sovereignty" title="U.S. territorial sovereignty">U.S. territorial sovereignty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Caribbean_region" title="U.S. Caribbean region">U.S. Caribbean region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/51st_state" title="51st state">51st state</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> "Commonwealth" does not describe a political status, and has been applied to states and territories. When used for U.S. non-states, the term describes a self-governed area with a constitution whose right of self-government will not be unilaterally withdrawn by Congress.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> According to the 2016 Supreme Court ruling <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_v._Sanchez_Valle" title="Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle">Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle</a>, territories are not sovereign.<a href="#cite_note-SupremeCourt1-3">[2]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> Two additional territories (<a href="/wiki/Bajo_Nuevo_Bank" title="Bajo Nuevo Bank">Bajo Nuevo Bank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Serranilla_Bank" title="Serranilla Bank">Serranilla Bank</a>) are claimed by the United States but administered by <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>—if these two territories are counted, the total number of U.S. territories is sixteen. </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> The U.S. General Accounting Office reports, "Some residents of the Stewart Islands in the Solomon Islands group [ <a href="/wiki/Sikaiana" title="Sikaiana">Sikaiana</a> ] ... claim that they are native Hawaiians and U.S. citizens. ... They base their claim on the assertion that the Stewart Islands were ceded to King <a href="/wiki/Kamehameha_IV" title="Kamehameha IV">Kamehameha IV</a> and accepted by him as part of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hawaii" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Hawaii">Kingdom of Hawaii</a> in 1856 and, thus, were part of the Republic of Hawaii (which was declared in 1893) when it was annexed to the United States by law in 1898." However, Sikaiana was not included within "Hawaii and its dependencies".<a href="#cite_note-14">[11]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a> Two territories (Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands) are called "commonwealths". </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a> The New York Times notes, "Even in [the four] territories, where statutory birthright citizenship has provided a makeshift solution for many decades, doubt, confusion and anxiety over the extent to which citizenship is constitutionally guaranteed have persisted for more than a century."<a href="#cite_note-Ponsa-6">[4]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a> In <a href="/wiki/Tuaua_v._United_States" title="Tuaua v. United States">Tuaua v. United States</a>, the DC Circuit ruled that citizenship-at-birth is not a right in unincorporated regions of the U.S.—current citizenship-at-birth in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands exists only because the U.S. Congress passed legislation granting it for those territories, and Congress has not done so for American Samoa.<a href="#cite_note-ASamoaHarvard-31">[26]</a> The Supreme Court declined to rule on the case.<a href="#cite_note-Tuana1-35">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-Tuana2-36">[30]</a> In 2021, the 10th Circuit ruled similarly in Fitisemanu v. United States.<a href="#cite_note-Jun2021-37">[31]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a> In parts of the United States other than American Samoa, non-citizen U.S. nationals cannot work in certain government jobs, vote or be elected for federal, state or most local government offices.<a href="#cite_note-NatGeoAS-33">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-LA_AS-41">[34]</a> For those who apply for naturalization, there is no guarantee that they will become U.S. citizens.<a href="#cite_note-NatGeoAS-33">[28]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a> SSI benefits are available only in the fifty states, the District of Columbia and the Northern Mariana Islands </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a> <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>, technically unorganized, is de facto organized. </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a> The administrative center of the Northern Mariana Islands is <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Hill,_Saipan" title="Capitol Hill, Saipan">Capitol Hill, Saipan</a>. However, because <a href="/wiki/Saipan,_Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands">Saipan</a> is governed as a single municipality, most publications refer to the capital as "Saipan". </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a> The largest village within Saipan is <a href="/wiki/Garapan,_Saipan" title="Garapan, Saipan">Garapan</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a> U.S. sovereignty took effect on November 3, 1986 (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time</a>) and on November 4, 1986 (local Northern Mariana Islands <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_Time_Zone" title="Chamorro Time Zone">Chamorro Time</a>).<a href="#cite_note-FAM_1986-69">[57]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a> The revised <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_American_Samoa" title="Constitution of American Samoa">constitution of American Samoa</a> was approved on June 2, 1967, by <a href="/wiki/Stewart_L._Udall" class="mw-redirect" title="Stewart L. Udall">Stewart L. Udall</a>, then <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, under authority granted on June 29, 1951. It became effective on July 1, 1967.<a href="#cite_note-76">[63]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a> 2017 poverty rate;<a href="#cite_note-ASamoa_Medicaid-22">[18]</a> in 2009, American Samoa's poverty rate was 57.8%<a href="#cite_note-98">[84]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a> The largest racial group is white, in addition to Hispanic/Latino.<a href="#cite_note-CIAPR-55">[47]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a> American Samoa is divided into counties, but the U.S. Census Bureau treats them as minor civil divisions.<a href="#cite_note-County1-106">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-County2-107">[91]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-200"><a href="#cite_ref-200">^</a> The forest cover percentage for the Northern Mariana Islands is for the three main islands only (<a href="/wiki/Saipan" class="mw-redirect" title="Saipan">Saipan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tinian" class="mw-redirect" title="Tinian">Tinian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rota_(island)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rota (island)">Rota</a>). </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151222081013/https://fam.state.gov/FAM/07FAM/07FAM1120.html#M1121_2_1">"Definition of Terms—1120 Acquisition of U.S. Nationality in U.S. Territories and Possessions"</a>. 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district">Municipal district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_district" title="Police district">Police district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_district" title="Regional district">Regional district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rural_district" title="Rural district">Rural district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanitary_district" title="Sanitary district">Sanitary district</a></li> <li>Service district <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Educational_service_district_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Educational service district (disambiguation)">Educational service district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_service_district_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Local service district (disambiguation)">Local service district</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/School_district" title="School district">School district</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Intermediate_school_district" title="Intermediate school district">Intermediate school district</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">Special district</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">in the US</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_district" title="Urban district">Urban district</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Division_(political_geography)" title="Division (political geography)">Division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census_division" title="Census division">Census division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_division" title="Police division">Police division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenue_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Revenue division">Subdivision of India</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indian reserve/reservation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservation</a> (United States)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reserve" title="Indian reserve">Indian reserve</a> (Canada)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Municipality</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/City_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="City municipality">City municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_municipality" title="County municipality">County municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct-controlled_municipality" title="Direct-controlled municipality">Direct-controlled municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_municipality" title="District municipality">District municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutral_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Neutral municipality">Neutral municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_municipality" title="Regional municipality">Regional municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resort_municipality" title="Resort municipality">Resort municipality</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_resort_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountain resort municipality">Mountain resort municipality</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rural_municipality" title="Rural municipality">Rural municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Specialized_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Specialized municipality">Specialized municipality</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prefecture" title="Prefecture">Prefecture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_prefecture" title="Autonomous prefecture">Autonomous prefecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subprefecture" title="Subprefecture">Subprefecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super-prefecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Super-prefecture">Super-prefecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praetorian_prefecture" title="Praetorian prefecture">Praetorian prefecture</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Province" title="Province">Province</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_province" title="Autonomous province">Autonomous province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_province" title="Overseas province">Overseas province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Roman province</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Region" title="Region">Region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Administrative region <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_region" title="Special administrative region">Special administrative region</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous region">Autonomous region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_region" title="Capital region">Capital region</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_capital_region" class="mw-redirect" title="National capital region">National capital region</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Development_region" title="Development region">Development region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesoregion_(geography)" title="Mesoregion (geography)">Mesoregion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microregion" title="Microregion">Microregion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas region">Overseas region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subregion_(administrative_division)" title="Subregion (administrative division)">Subregion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Federated_state" title="Federated state">State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-state">Proto-state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">City-state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal state">Federal state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_state_(polity)" title="Free state (polity)">Free state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">Sovereign state</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Territory" title="Territory">Territory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital territory">Capital territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal capital territory">Federal capital territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="National capital territory">National capital territory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">Dependent territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_territory" title="Federal territory">Federal territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incorporated_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Incorporated territory">Incorporated territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Organized_incorporated_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Organized incorporated territory">Organized incorporated territory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas territory">Overseas territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_territory" title="Union territory">Union territory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">Town</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census_town" title="Census town">Census town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">Market town</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Township" title="Township">Township</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charter_township" title="Charter township">Charter township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">Civil township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paper_township" title="Paper township">Paper township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Survey_township" title="Survey township">Survey township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_township" title="Urban township">Urban township</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unit</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regional_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional unit">Regional unit</a></li> <li>Territorial unit <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_territorial_unit" title="Autonomous territorial unit">Autonomous territorial unit</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Zone</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Economic zone <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone" title="Exclusive economic zone">Exclusive economic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_economic_zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Free economic zone">Free economic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_economic_zone" title="Special economic zone">Special economic zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exclusion_zone" title="Exclusion zone">Exclusion zone</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_exclusion_zone" title="Military exclusion zone">Military exclusion zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_speech_zone" title="Free speech zone">Free speech zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutral_zone_(territorial_entity)" title="Neutral zone (territorial entity)">Neutral zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-administered_zone" title="Self-administered zone">Self-administered zone</a></li> <li>Trade zone <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Free-trade_zone" title="Free-trade zone">Free-trade zone</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other_English_terms39" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other English terms</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Victoria#Alpine_resorts" title="Local government in Victoria">Alpine resort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailiwick" title="Bailiwick">Bailiwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banner_(administrative_division)" title="Banner (administrative division)">Banner</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banners_of_Inner_Mongolia" title="Banners of Inner Mongolia">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Block_(district_subdivision)" title="Block (district subdivision)">Block</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadastre" title="Cadastre">Cadastre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circle_(administrative_division)" title="Circle (administrative division)">Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circuit_(administrative_division)" title="Circuit (administrative division)">Circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">Colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Commune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Condominium_(international_law)" title="Condominium (international law)">Condominium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constituency_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency (administrative division)">Constituency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy" title="Duchy">Duchy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/District_duchy" title="District duchy">District</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elderships_of_Lithuania" title="Elderships of Lithuania">Eldership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirate" title="Emirate">Emirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave" title="Enclave and exclave">Enclave and exclave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela" title="Federal Dependencies of Venezuela">Federal dependency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate" title="Governorate">Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">Hamlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">Manor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_manor" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal manor">Royal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muftiate" title="Muftiate">Muftiate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neighbourhood" title="Neighbourhood">Neighbourhood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_precinct" title="Electoral precinct">Precinct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality" title="Principality">Principality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">Protectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quarter_(urban_subdivision)" title="Quarter (urban subdivision)">Quarter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regencies_and_cities_of_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of regencies and cities of Indonesia">Regency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_republic" title="Autonomous republic">Autonomous republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riding_(division)" title="Riding (division)">Riding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sector_(administrative_division)" title="Sector (administrative division)">Sector</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_sector" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous sector">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shire" title="Shire">Shire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate">Sultanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzerainty" title="Suzerainty">Suzerainty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Townland" title="Townland">Townland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">Village</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_summer_villages_in_Alberta" title="List of summer villages in Alberta">Summer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)" title="Ward (electoral subdivision)">Ward</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agency_(administrative_division)" title="Agency (administrative division)">Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_(county_division)" title="Barony (county division)">Barony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">Burgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exarchate" title="Exarchate">Exarchate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hide_(unit)" title="Hide (unit)">Hide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_division)" title="Hundred (county division)">Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Circle">Imperial Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_(territorial_entity)" class="mw-redirect" title="March (territorial entity)">March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monthon" title="Monthon">Monthon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidency (administrative division)">Presidency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Residency_(administrative_division)" title="Residency (administrative division)">Residency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_diocese" title="Roman diocese">Roman diocese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seat_(administrative_division)" title="Seat (administrative division)">Seat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenth_(administrative_division)" title="Tenth (administrative division)">Tenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithing" title="Tithing">Tithing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty" title="Viceroyalty">Viceroyalty</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Non-English_terms_or_loanwords433" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Non-English terms or loanwords</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amt" title="Amt">Amt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apskritis" class="mw-redirect" title="Apskritis">Apskritis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakhsh" title="Bakhsh">Bakhsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barangay" title="Barangay">Barangay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashki" class="mw-redirect" title="Bashki">Bashki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bezirk" title="Bezirk">Bezirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regierungsbezirk" title="Regierungsbezirk">Regierungsbezirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comarca" title="Comarca">Comarca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comune" title="Comune">Comune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frazione" title="Frazione">Frazione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freguesia" title="Freguesia">Freguesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fu_(administrative_division)" title="Fu (administrative division)">Fu</a></li> <li>Gemeinde <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Austria)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Austria)">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Germany)">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(South_Tyrol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (South Tyrol)">South Tyrol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Switzerland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Switzerland)">Switzerland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeente_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Gemeente (disambiguation)">Gemeente</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gmina" title="Gmina">Gmina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hromada" title="Hromada">Hromada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jude%C8%9B" title="Județ">Județ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kampong" title="Kampong">Kampong</a></li> <li>Kommun/Kunta <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Finland" title="Municipalities of Finland">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Sweden" title="Municipalities of Sweden">Sweden</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A4n" title="Län">Län (Sweden)</a></li> <li>Landskap <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Finland" title="Regions of Finland">Finland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Localit%C3%A0" title="Località">Località</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Finland" title="Regions of Finland">Maakunta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Hungary" title="Counties of Hungary">Megye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muban" title="Muban">Muban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukim" title="Mukim">Mukim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nj%C3%ABsi_administrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Njësi administrative">Njësi administrative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obec" title="Obec">Obec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">Oblast</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_oblast" title="Autonomous oblast">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okrug" title="Okrug">Okrug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Iran" title="Provinces of Iran">Ostān</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poblacion" title="Poblacion">Poblacion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purok" title="Purok">Purok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qark" class="mw-redirect" title="Qark">Qark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raion" title="Raion">Raion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savivaldyb%C4%97" class="mw-redirect" title="Savivaldybė">Savivaldybė</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selsoviet" title="Selsoviet">Selsoviet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitio" title="Sitio">Sitio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seni%C5%ABnija" class="mw-redirect" title="Seniūnija">Seniūnija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Iran" title="Counties of Iran">Shahrestān</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sum_(administrative_division)" title="Sum (administrative division)">Sum</a> 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href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Finland" title="Provinces of Finland">Län/Lääni</a></li> <li>Landskap <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden" title="Provinces of Sweden">Sweden</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maalaiskunta" title="Maalaiskunta">Landskommun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maalaiskunta" title="Maalaiskunta">Maalaiskunta</a></li> <li>Nome <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nome_(Egypt)" title="Nome (Egypt)">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_Greece" title="Prefectures of Greece">Greece</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagus" title="Pagus">Pagus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pargana" title="Pargana">Pargana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plas%C4%83" title="Plasă">Plasă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rreth" class="mw-redirect" title="Rreth">Rreth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satrap" title="Satrap">Satrapy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socken" title="Socken">Socken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subah" title="Subah">Subah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syssel" title="Syssel">Syssel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhou_(administrative_division)" title="Zhou (administrative division)">Zhou</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Used by ten or more countries or having derived terms. 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title="Maine">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montana" title="Montana">Montana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebraska" title="Nebraska">Nebraska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota">North Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_district" title="Federal district">Federal district</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:right;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">Outlying islands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baker_Island" title="Baker Island">Baker Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howland_Island" title="Howland Island">Howland Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Island" title="Jarvis Island">Jarvis Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnston_Atoll" title="Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingman_Reef" title="Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navassa_Island" title="Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States" title="List of Indian reservations in the United States">List of Indian reservations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Concessions_and_leases_in_international_relations" title="Concessions and leases in international relations">International concessions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base" title="Guantanamo Bay Naval Base">Guantanamo Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base" title="Pituffik Space Base">Pituffik</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Territories_of_the_United_States171" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Organic_act" title="Organic act">Organic act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_regions_of_the_United_States#Former_organized_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic regions of the United States">Organized incorporated territories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States" title="Territorial evolution of the United States">Territorial evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._territorial_sovereignty" title="U.S. territorial sovereignty">U.S. territorial sovereignty</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;border-bottom:1px #ccc solid"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territory" title="Northwest Territory">Northwest</a> (1787–1803)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Territory" title="Southwest Territory">Southwest</a> (1790–1796)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Territory" title="Mississippi Territory">Mississippi</a> (1798–1817)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Territory" title="Indiana Territory">Indiana</a> (1800–1816)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Orleans" title="Territory of Orleans">Orleans</a> (1804–1812)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Territory" title="Louisiana Territory">Louisiana</a>/<a href="/wiki/Missouri_Territory" title="Missouri Territory">Missouri</a> (1805–1821)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_Territory" title="Michigan Territory">Michigan</a> (1805–1837)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illinois_Territory" title="Illinois Territory">Illinois</a> (1809–1818)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Territory" title="Alabama Territory">Alabama</a> (1817–1819)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkansas_Territory" title="Arkansas Territory">Arkansas</a> (1819–1836)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florida_Territory" title="Florida Territory">Florida</a> (1822–1845)</li> <li>Oklahoma <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> 1834–1907</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Panhandle" class="mw-redirect" title="Oklahoma Panhandle">Panhandle</a> 1850–1890</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Territory" title="Oklahoma Territory">Territory</a> 1890–1907</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Territory" title="Wisconsin Territory">Wisconsin</a> (1836–1848)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iowa_Territory" title="Iowa Territory">Iowa</a> (1838–1846)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oregon_Territory" title="Oregon Territory">Oregon</a> (1848–1859)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Territory" title="Minnesota Territory">Minnesota</a> (1849–1858)</li> <li>New Mexico <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U.S._provisional_government_of_New_Mexico" title="U.S. provisional government of New Mexico">Provisional</a> 1846–1850</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Mexico_Territory" title="New Mexico Territory">Territory</a> 1850–1912</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utah_Territory" title="Utah Territory">Utah</a> (1850–1896)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Territory" title="Washington Territory">Washington</a> (1853–1889)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Territory" title="Kansas Territory">Kansas</a> (1854–1861)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Territory" title="Nebraska Territory">Nebraska</a> (1854–1867)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevada_Territory" title="Nevada Territory">Nevada</a> (1861–1864)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Territory" title="Colorado Territory">Colorado</a> (1861–1876)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakota_Territory" title="Dakota Territory">Dakota</a> (1861–1889)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idaho_Territory" title="Idaho Territory">Idaho</a> (1863–1890)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arizona_Territory" title="Arizona Territory">Arizona</a> (1863–1912)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montana_Territory" title="Montana Territory">Montana</a> (1864–1889)</li> <li>Alaska <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Alaska" title="Department of Alaska">Department</a> 1867–1884</li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_of_Alaska" title="District of Alaska">District</a> 1884–1912</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Alaska" title="Territory of Alaska">Territory</a> 1912–1959</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyoming_Territory" title="Wyoming Territory">Wyoming</a> (1868–1890)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Hawaii" title="Territory of Hawaii">Hawaii</a> (1900–1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;font-weight:bold;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories">Unincorporated territories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Hawaii" title="Republic of Hawaii">Republic of Hawaii</a> (1898–1900)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Government_of_Guam" title="Naval Government of Guam">Naval Government</a> 1899–1950</li></ul></li> <li>Philippines <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_Government_of_the_Philippine_Islands" title="Military Government of the Philippine Islands">Military Government</a> 1899–1902</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insular_Government_of_the_Philippine_Islands" title="Insular Government of the Philippine Islands">Insular Government</a> 1902–1935</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_the_Philippines" title="Commonwealth of the Philippines">Commonwealth</a> 1935–1946</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_Government_of_Porto_Rico" title="Military Government of Porto Rico">Military Government</a> 1899–1900</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insular_Government_of_Porto_Rico" title="Insular Government of Porto Rico">Insular Government</a> 1900–1952</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a> (1900–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">United States Virgin Islands</a> (1917–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> (1986–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;font-weight:bold;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_trust_territories" title="United Nations trust territories">United Nations trust territories</a> and other inhabited territories governed by the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Concession_(Shanghai)" title="American Concession (Shanghai)">American concession of Shanghai</a> (1848–1863)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_concession_of_Tianjin" title="American concession of Tianjin">American concession of Tianjin</a> (1860–1901)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_Government_of_Cuba" title="Military Government of Cuba">Cuba</a> (1899–1902)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a> (<a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" title="Panama Canal Zone">Zone</a>) (1903–1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corn_Islands" title="Corn Islands">Corn Islands</a> (1914–1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canton_and_Enderbury_Islands" title="Canton and Enderbury Islands">Canton and Enderbury Islands</a> (1939–1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands" title="Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands">Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a> (1947–1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Civil_Administration_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands" title="United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands">Ryukyu Islands</a> (1950–1972)</li></ul> 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href="/wiki/Johnston_Atoll" title="Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a> (1858–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navassa_Island" title="Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a> (1858–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingman_Reef" title="Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a> (1860–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swan_Islands,_Honduras" title="Swan Islands, Honduras">Swan Islands</a> (1863–1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howland_Island" title="Howland Island">Howland Island</a> (1867–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a> (1867–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quita_Sue%C3%B1o_Bank" title="Quita Sueño Bank">Quita Sueño Bank</a> (1869–1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a> (1898–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a> (1899–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><img alt="" 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(1776–1789)">1776–1789</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931815)" title="History of the United States (1789–1815)">1789–1815</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1815%E2%80%931849)" title="History of the United States (1815–1849)">1815–1849</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1849%E2%80%931865)" title="History of the United States (1849–1865)">1849–1865</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931917)" title="History of the United States (1865–1917)">1865–1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1917%E2%80%931945)" title="History of the United States (1917–1945)">1917–1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1945%E2%80%931964)" title="History of the United States (1945–1964)">1945–1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1964%E2%80%931980)" title="History of the United States (1964–1980)">1964–1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1980%E2%80%931991)" title="History of the United States (1980–1991)">1980–1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1991%E2%80%932016)" title="History of the United States (1991–2016)">1991–2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(2016-present)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the United States (2016-present)">2016–present</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By event</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian_era" title="Pre-Columbian era">Pre-colonial era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Colonial history of the United States">Colonial era</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_Congress" title="Stamp Act Congress">Stamp Act Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_American_military_history" title="Colonial American military history">military history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Resolution" title="Lee Resolution">Lee Resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">Treaty of Paris</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Perpetual_Union" title="Perpetual Union">Perpetual Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confederation_period" title="Confederation period">Confederation period</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_frontier" title="American frontier">American frontier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_drafting_and_ratification_of_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution">drafting and ratification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federalist_Era" title="Federalist Era">Federalist Era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States" title="Territorial evolution of the United States">Territorial evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Indian_Wars" title="American Indian Wars">Indian Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States" title="Native American genocide in the United States">Native genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilded_Age" title="Gilded Age">Gilded Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Era" title="Progressive Era">Progressive Era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States" title="Women's suffrage in the United States">Women's suffrage</a></li> <li>Civil rights movement <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement_(1865%E2%80%931896)" title="Civil rights movement (1865–1896)">1865–1896</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement_(1896%E2%80%931954)" title="Civil rights movement (1896–1954)">1896–1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">1954–1968</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_imperialism" class="mw-redirect" title="American imperialism">Imperialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_in_World_War_I" title="United States in World War I">World War I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roaring_Twenties" title="Roaring Twenties">Roaring Twenties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United States during World War II">World War II</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_home_front_during_World_War_II" title="United States home front during World War II">home front</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Century" title="American Century">American Century</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second-wave_feminism" title="Second-wave feminism">Feminist Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_liberation" title="Gay liberation">LGBT Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1991%E2%80%932008)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the United States (1991–2008)">Post-Cold War (1991–2008)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">War on Terror</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Recession_in_the_United_States" title="Great Recession in the United States">Great Recession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_history_of_the_United_States" title="Outline of the history of the United States">Outline of U.S. history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Demographic history of the United States">Demographic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_discoveries" title="Timeline of United States discoveries">Discoveries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Economic history of the United States">Economic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions" title="Timeline of United States inventions">Inventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States" title="Military history of the United States">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the United States">Postal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technological_and_industrial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Technological and industrial history of the United States">Technological and industrial</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_United_States" title="Geography of the United States">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U.S._territorial_sovereignty" title="U.S. territorial sovereignty">Territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Contiguous_United_States" title="Contiguous United States">Contiguous United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">federal district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_enclave" title="Federal enclave">federal enclaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservations</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">insular zones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">minor outlying islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_populated_places_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of populated places in the United States">populated places</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">states</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_United_States" title="List of earthquakes in the United States">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_the_United_States" title="List of extreme points of the United States">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_United_States" title="List of islands of the United States">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountains_of_the_United_States" title="List of mountains of the United States">Mountains</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountain_peaks_of_the_United_States" title="List of mountain peaks of the United States">peaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountain_ranges#United_States" title="List of mountain ranges">ranges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" title="Appalachian Mountains">Appalachian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra Nevada</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_areas_in_the_United_States_National_Park_System" title="List of areas in the United States National Park System">National Parks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Plains" title="Great Plains">Great Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="Gulf Coast of the United States">Gulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_(United_States)" title="Mid-Atlantic (United States)">Mid-Atlantic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">Pacific</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_United_States" title="Central United States">Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_United_States" title="Eastern United States">Eastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_United_States" title="Northern United States">Northern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwestern_United_States" title="Northwestern United States">Northwestern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwestern_United_States" title="Southwestern United States">Southwestern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_United_States" title="Western United States">Western</a></li></ul></li> <li>Longest <a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_the_United_States" title="List of rivers of the United States">rivers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arkansas_River" title="Arkansas River">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_River" title="Colorado River">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_River" title="Columbia River">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_River" title="Missouri River">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South" title="Red River of the South">Red (South)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande" title="Rio Grande">Rio Grande</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yukon_River" title="Yukon River">Yukon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States" title="Time in the United States">Time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_United_States" title="Water supply and sanitation in the United States">Water supply and sanitation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_United_States" title="List of World Heritage Sites in the United States">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">Federal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Executive</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Powers_of_the_president_of_the_United_States" title="Powers of the president of the United States">powers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Executive Office of the President of the United States">Executive Office</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States" title="Cabinet of the United States">Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments" title="United States federal executive departments">Executive departments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent agencies of the United States government">Independent agencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community" title="United States Intelligence Community">Intelligence Community</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Director of National Intelligence">Director of National Intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office" title="National Reconnaissance Office">National Reconnaissance Office</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States" title="Federal law enforcement in the United States">Law enforcement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Firearms_and_Explosives" title="Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives">ATF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protection" title="U.S. Customs and Border Protection">CBP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Diplomatic_Security" title="Bureau of Diplomatic Security">Diplomatic Security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration" title="Drug Enforcement Administration">DEA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" title="U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement">ICE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">Marshals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service" title="United States Secret Service">Secret Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration" title="Transportation Security Administration">TSA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_(United_States)" title="Office of Inspector General (United States)">Inspector generals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_civil_service" title="United States federal civil service">Civil service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Public policy of the United States">Public policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Legislative</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="List of current members of the United States House of Representatives">current members</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_senators" title="List of current United States senators">current members</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="President pro tempore of the United States Senate">President pro tempore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States#President_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Vice President of the United States">President</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol_Police" title="United States Capitol Police">Capitol Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office">Congressional Budget Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_Accountability_Office" title="Government Accountability Office">Government Accountability Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Government_Publishing_Office" title="United States Government Publishing Office">Government Publishing Office</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_judiciary_of_the_United_States" title="Federal judiciary of the United States">Judicial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States">Associate Justices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals" title="United States courts of appeals">Courts of appeals</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_circuit_judges" title="List of current United States circuit judges">list of judges</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_district_court" title="United States district court">District courts</a>/<a href="/wiki/United_States_territorial_court" title="United States territorial court">Territorial courts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_district_and_territorial_courts" title="List of United States district and territorial courts">list of courts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_district_judges" title="List of current United States district judges">list of judges</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_tribunals_in_the_United_States" title="Federal tribunals in the United States">Other tribunals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney">U.S. attorney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States" title="Law of the United States">Law</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_liberties_in_the_United_States" title="Civil liberties in the United States">civil liberties</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Code of Federal Regulations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federalism_in_the_United_States" title="Federalism in the United States">federalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_preemption" title="Federal preemption">preemption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separation_of_powers_under_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Separation of powers under the United States Constitution">separation of powers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">United States Code</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_United_States" title="Uniformed services of the United States">Uniformed</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">Armed Forces</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">Marine Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">Navy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Space_Force" title="United States Space Force">Space Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">Coast Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Guard_(United_States)" title="National Guard (United States)">National Guard</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NOAA_Commissioned_Officer_Corps" title="NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps">NOAA Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps" title="United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps">Public Health Service Corps</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_governments_of_the_United_States" title="State governments of the United States">State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_District_of_Columbia" title="Government of the District of Columbia">Federal District</a>, and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Territorial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_constitutional_officer" title="State constitutional officer">Executive</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Governor_(United_States)" title="Governor (United States)">Governor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_governors" title="List of current United States governors">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_governor_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant governor (United States)">Lieutenant governor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_lieutenant_governors" title="List of current United States lieutenant governors">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_state_(U.S._state_government)" title="Secretary of state (U.S. state government)">Secretary of state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_attorney_general" title="State attorney general">Attorney general</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_treasurer" title="State treasurer">Treasurer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_auditor" title="State auditor">Auditor/Comptroller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_commissioner" title="Agriculture commissioner">Agriculture commissioner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurance_commissioner" title="Insurance commissioner">Insurance commissioner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_utilities_commission" title="Public utilities commission">Public utilities commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_police_(United_States)" title="State police (United States)">State police</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_and_local_law_enforcement_agencies" title="List of United States state and local law enforcement agencies">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_legislature_(United_States)" title="State legislature (United States)">Legislative</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures" title="List of United States state legislatures">List of legislatures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_legislators" title="List of U.S. state legislators">List of legislators</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_court_(United_States)" title="State court (United States)">Judicial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_supreme_court" title="State supreme court">Supreme courts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_chief_justices" title="List of state chief justices">Chief justices</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_attorney" title="District attorney">District attorney</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_district_attorneys_by_county" class="mw-redirect" title="List of district attorneys by county">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_law_(United_States)" title="State law (United States)">Law</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_constitutions_in_the_United_States" title="State constitutions in the United States">State constitutions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_statutory_codes" title="List of U.S. state statutory codes">Statutory codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uniform_act" title="Uniform act">Uniform act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_U.S._state_and_territory_governments" title="Comparison of U.S. state and territory governments">Comparison of governments</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tribe_(Native_American)" title="Tribe (Native American)">Tribal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_United_States" title="Tribal sovereignty in the United States">Tribal sovereignty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_recognition_in_the_United_States" title="Native American recognition in the United States">Native American recognition in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federally_recognized_tribes_in_the_contiguous_United_States" title="List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States">Federally recognized tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Alaska_Native_tribal_entities" title="List of Alaska Native tribal entities">Federally recognized Alaska Native tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States" title="State-recognized tribes in the United States">State-recognized tribes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States" title="List of Indian reservations in the United States">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_home_land" title="Hawaiian home land">Hawaiian home land</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_States" title="Local government in the United States">Local</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties_and_county_equivalents" title="List of United States counties and county equivalents">List of counties and county equivalents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_executive" title="County executive">County executive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheriffs_in_the_United_States" title="Sheriffs in the United States">Sheriff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_clerk" title="Municipal clerk">Clerk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coterminous_municipality" title="Coterminous municipality">Coterminous municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_charter#United_States" title="Municipal charter">Charter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayor%E2%80%93council_government" title="Mayor–council government">Mayor–council government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council%E2%80%93manager_government" title="Council–manager government">Council–manager government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_commission_government" title="City commission government">City commission government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayoralty_in_the_United_States" title="Mayoralty in the United States">Mayor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_manager" title="City manager">City manager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_council#United_States" title="Municipal council">City council</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Minor_civil_division" title="Minor civil division">Minor divisions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town_meeting" title="Town meeting">Town meeting</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">Special district</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/School_district" title="School district">School district</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_school_districts_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of school districts in the United States">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_the_United_States" title="Corruption in the United States">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_States" title="Elections in the United States">Elections</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College" title="United States Electoral College">Electoral College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states" title="Red states and blue states">Red states and blue states</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign relations of the United States">Foreign relations</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign policy of the United States">foreign policy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_presidency" title="Imperial presidency">Imperial presidency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_ideologies_in_the_United_States" title="Political ideologies in the United States">Ideologies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Americanism" title="Anti-Americanism">Anti-Americanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_exceptionalism" title="American exceptionalism">exceptionalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_nationalism" title="American nationalism">nationalism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States" title="Political parties in the United States">Parties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third parties</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States" title="List of federal political scandals in the United States">Scandals</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States_by_sector" title="Economy of the United States by sector">By sector</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_States" title="Agriculture in the United States">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banking_in_the_United_States" title="Banking in the United States">Banking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communications_in_the_United_States" title="Communications in the United States">Communications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_companies_of_the_United_States_by_state" title="List of companies of the United States by state">Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States" title="Energy in the United States">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Insurance in the United States">Insurance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_States" title="Manufacturing in the United States">Manufacturing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mining_in_the_United_States" title="Mining in the United States">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_the_United_States" title="Science and technology in the United States">Science and technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States" title="Tourism in the United States">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_trade_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign trade of the United States">Trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_companies_of_the_United_States_by_state" title="List of companies of the United States by state">by state</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">Currency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_exports_of_the_United_States" title="List of exports of the United States">Exports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_budget" title="United States federal budget">Federal budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_States" title="Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States">Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve System</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_United_States" title="Financial position of the United States">Financial position</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_States" title="Labor unions in the United States">Labor unions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States" title="National debt of the United States">Public debt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States" title="Social programs in the United States">Social welfare programs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="Taxation in the United States">Taxation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_States" title="Unemployment in the United States">Unemployment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Transport in the United States">Transport</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aviation_in_the_United_States" title="Aviation in the United States">Aviation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Driving_in_the_United_States" title="Driving in the United States">Driving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Public transportation in the United States">Public transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Rail transportation in the United States">Rail transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Transportation policy of the United States">Transportation policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_United_States" title="Transportation safety in the United States">Transportation safety</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trucking_industry_in_the_United_States" title="Trucking industry in the United States">Trucking industry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_the_United_States" title="Category:Society of the United States">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_States" title="Culture of the United States">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Americana_(culture)" title="Americana (culture)">Americana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_in_the_United_States" title="Architecture in the United States">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States" title="Crime in the United States">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_cuisine" title="American cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dance_in_the_United_States" title="Dance in the United States">Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States" title="Demographics of the United States">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">Economic issues</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">affluence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eviction_in_the_United_States" title="Eviction in the United States">eviction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_States" title="Homeownership in the United States">homeownership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States" title="Household income in the United States">household income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">income inequality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_middle_class" title="American middle class">middle class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States" title="Personal income in the United States">personal income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">poverty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_the_United_States" title="Standard of living in the United States">standard of living</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">wealth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Working_class_in_the_United_States" title="Working class in the United States">working class</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States" title="Education in the United States">Education</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States" title="Educational attainment in the United States">attainment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States" title="Literacy in the United States">literacy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_in_the_United_States" title="Family in the United States">Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fashion_in_the_United_States" title="Fashion in the United States">Fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States" title="Flag of the United States">Flag</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_flags_of_the_United_States" title="List of flags of the United States">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_the_United_States" title="Folklore of the United States">Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_States" title="Public holidays in the United States">Holidays</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States" title="Federal holidays in the United States">Federal holidays</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States" title="Homelessness in the United States">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_in_the_United_States" title="Housing in the United States">Housing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Human rights in the United States">Human rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States" title="Languages of the United States">Languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous languages of the Americas">Indigenous languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Sign_Language" title="American Sign Language">ASL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_literature" title="American literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_media_in_the_United_States" title="Mass media in the United States">Media</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_American_journalism" title="History of American journalism">journalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States" title="Internet in the United States">internet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers" title="History of American newspapers">newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_in_the_United_States" title="Radio in the United States">radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States" title="Television in the United States">television</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_United_States" title="Music of the United States">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naming_in_the_United_States" title="Naming in the United States">Names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner" title="The Star-Spangled Banner">National anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_symbols_of_the_United_States" title="National symbols of the United States">National symbols</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_(personification)" title="Columbia (personification)">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Rushmore" title="Mount Rushmore">Mount Rushmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty" title="Statue of Liberty">Statue of Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Sam" title="Uncle Sam">Uncle Sam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_philosophy" title="American philosophy">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_ideologies_in_the_United_States" title="Political ideologies in the United States">Political ideologies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States" title="Race and ethnicity in the United States">Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States" title="Religion in the United States">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_the_United_States" title="Sexuality in the United States">Sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States" title="Social class in the United States">Social class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_United_States" title="Society of the United States">Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_in_the_United_States" title="Sports in the United States">Sports</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_sports_in_the_United_States" title="History of sports in the United States">history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theater_in_the_United_States" title="Theater in the United States">Theater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Transportation in the United States">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_games_in_the_United_States" title="Video games in the United States">Video games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visual_art_of_the_United_States" title="Visual art of the United States">Visual art</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States" title="Social class in the United States">Social class</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">Affluence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Dream" title="American Dream">American Dream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States" title="Educational attainment in the United States">Educational attainment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States" title="Homelessness in the United States">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_States" title="Homeownership in the United States">Homeownership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States" title="Household income in the United States">Household income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">Income inequality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_middle_class" title="American middle class">Middle class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States" title="Personal income in the United States">Personal income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">Poverty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_the_United_States" title="Standard of living in the United States">Standard of living</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Health_in_the_United_States" title="Health in the United States">Health</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aging_of_the_United_States" title="Aging of the United States">Aging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United_States" title="Healthcare in the United States">Healthcare</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States" title="Abortion in the United States">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birth_control_in_the_United_States" title="Birth control in the United States">Birth control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prenatal_care_in_the_United_States" title="Prenatal care in the United States">Prenatal care</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hospice_care_in_the_United_States" title="Hospice care in the United States">Hospice care</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigrant_health_care_in_the_United_States" title="Immigrant health care in the United States">Immigrant health care</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Healthcare_rationing_in_the_United_States" title="Healthcare rationing in the United States">Rationing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_care_finance_in_the_United_States" title="Health care finance in the United States">Health care finance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_costs_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance costs in the United States">Health insurance costs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_care_prices_in_the_United_States" title="Health care prices in the United States">Health care prices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prescription_drug_prices_in_the_United_States" title="Prescription drug prices in the United States">Prescription drug prices</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disability_in_the_United_States" title="Disability in the United States">Disability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance in the United States">Health insurance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_safety_in_the_United_States" title="Food safety in the United States">Food safety</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physician_shortage_in_the_United_States" title="Physician shortage in the United States">Physician shortage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poverty_and_health_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty and health in the United States">Poverty and health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_and_health_in_the_United_States" title="Race and health in the United States">Race and health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States" title="Obesity in the United States">Obesity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medical_deserts_in_the_United_States" title="Medical deserts in the United States">Medical deserts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_reproductive_health_in_the_United_States" title="Women's reproductive health in the United States">Women's reproductive health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy" title="List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy">Life expectancy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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States">Human rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">Immigration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States">illegal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_security_of_the_United_States" title="National security of the United States">National security</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States" title="Terrorism in the United States">Terrorism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States" title="Opioid epidemic in the United States">Opioid epidemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States" title="Separation of church and state in the United States">Separation of church and state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xenophobia_in_the_United_States" title="Xenophobia in the United States">Xenophobia</a></li></ul> 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